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Professor Flunks Half His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers

2023/5/19
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AI Revolution Podcast | Chat-GPT, Midjourney, OpenAI

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A Texas A&M college professor reportedly failed part of his senior class after using ChatGPT to check whether or not they cheated on their final assignments.

“I copy and paste your responses in [ChatGPT] and [it] will tell me if the program generated the content,” he wrote, saying he had tested each paper twice. He offered the class a makeup assignment to avoid the failing grade — which could otherwise, in theory, threaten their graduation status.

There’s just one problem: ChatGPT doesn’t work that way. The bot isn’t made to detect material composed by AI — or even material produced by itself.

Links:

Rolling Stone: Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers)

Dexerto: College Professor reportedly fails class after ChatGPT falsely claims they cheated)