they have me as breaking their academic dishonesty and facilitating academic dishonesty policies. My website is nothing more than a reading assistant. It can't be used to help students cheat, which is why it shouldn't breach these rules
Irrespective of what your application does for students, the text on the first page refers to turning hours of homework into minutes, which could sound a lot like “does your homework for you.” I have no opinion on the subject not knowing the policies or having evaluated the product though
Your site says it "Turn hours of homework into minutes" and provides "instant responses and insights to all your questions" -- this definitely gives the reasonable impression it can be used to cheat on assignments.
> “offering instant responses and insights to all your questions”
This phrasing sounds a lot like saying it’ll give you answers to your problem set out whatever.
On a slightly different and opinionated note, bite the bullet and stay in school. A lot of people push the “you don’t need school” ideology but considering you’re in a top school and (presumably) studying CS you’ll get a lot of value from just having the degree (whether or not you agree with this practice is besides the point)
Depending on how important this is for you, I'd get an attorney involved and ask the faculty members who are accusing you "HOW are you facilitating academic dishonesty".
It's really easy to accuse someone of something, it's much harder to substantiate it, especially when it's factually not true.
I know attorney's aren't free (nor cheap), that's why I asked how important this is for you, and if it's worth putting your [current] academic pursuits in jeopardy.
"paste the URL of the content you want to analyze" -- Apparently this has been a problem where the content is restricted IP behind a login barrier, the URL contains an auth/login token, and the AI scrapes the restricted content without being authorized to do so. They have the right to get a judge to order you not to do that anymore. If your AI analyzes it and displays a summary, you are producing a derivative work, which is a copyright infringement, which means a judge will order you not to do that anymore.
doesn't that mean the student has to actually breach the policy? it sounds like at the moment that they don't like what he's done, but can't seem to explain exactly what makes it academic crime.
I agree that they should explain and are most likely just dropping the hammer on something they don’t like.
My point is school boards have no requirement to be transparent and generally aren’t something you can appeal or use the actual legal system to help you with. If they decide they want to kick you out, that’s it. They’re intimidating the student and I guess what I’m saying is the student should seriously consider whether or not they want the degree because I don’t think they can fight the academic dishonesty board even if the student is technically right.
