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College student put on academic probation for using Grammarly: ‘AI violation’


Marley Stevens, a junior at the University of North Georgia, says she was wrongly accused of cheating and it could happen to anyone.

Marley Stevens, 21, a human services and delivery and administration major at the University of North Georgia Dahlonega Campus told The Post she used Grammarly, a web browser attachment that corrects spelling and punctuation, to proofread a criminal justice paper she submitted in October. Marley Stevens, 21, a junior at the University of North Georgia Dahlonega Campus used Grammarly, a web browser attachment that corrects spelling and punctuation, to proofread a criminal justice paper she submitted in October. Grammarly told The Post its “suggestions for spelling, grammatical correctness, clarity, concision, and tone are not powered by generative AI,” and warned that some tools can “mistakenly” flag its use as AI-generated content.

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