An LLM Student from the OP Jindal Global Law School has appealed against the decision of his law School’s Unfair Means Committee to penalize him.

Reason behind Punishment
The Unfair Means Committee of the Law College has found that the answers submitted by the concerned student in the end-term exams for the paper titled ‘Law and Justice in the Globalising World’ are 88% AI-generated by an AI detection tool called Turnitin.

Further, the Controller of Examination also upheld the committee’s decision to fail him. Hence, the candidate has been failed.

The Appeal
The student, who also runs an AI Platform related to Litigation and has been a Researcher with the CJI, has appealed against the decision of the Unfair Means Committee in the Punjab & Haryana High Court. The student has denied the use of AI in his petition.

The petition states that the university has not issued any categorical guideline(s) against the use of AI in exams. Since AI is a tool, Plagiarism can only be established if there are any outright copyright violations. The complainant has also said that the University has failed to provide even an iota of evidence to corroborate their decision.

Weakness of AI Detection Tools
The petition also points to the weaknesses of the Turnitin tool as far as AI detection is concerned, which has also been underlined by the company on occasion. As per the reports, it sometimes gives false positives upon generating AI-detection tests.

Law School’s Response
The law school has not responded with any justification or clarification regarding the punishment or penalization. However, it has pressed to clarify its stance before the court for due justice.

Pressing Issue
As mankind navigates its way through the AI revolution, challenges are bound to emerge. This particular case presents crucial yet interesting and worthwhile developments in the fields of law, academics, and AI, all three. It will define the long-term principles of humankind in terms of the fundamentals followed in academics along with defining the boundaries defining the application of AI and AI tools in respective domains.

Besides, the pressing issue here concerns things in and beyond AI as in the boundaries that we, as humans, need to define in order to protect innovation and human instinct and not leave behind mere imitation of some language model into our catharsis and long-lived history, literature, law, and many other disciplines.