ChatGPT AI falsely claimed that the students of a professor in Texas cheated on their essays. And as such, the college instructor flunked all of them.
The viral chatbot of OpenAI ended up falsely accusing students of cheating, resulting in an unfortunate outcome.
ChatGPT AI False Cheating Claims
As per Digital Trends, a Texas A&M University instructor is now the talk of the town after using the ChatGPT to check if his students' assignments have been plagiarized from the viral AI chatbot.
Dr. Jared Mumm, a campus rodeo instructor, copied and pasted all of the final papers of his students to the chatbot over suspicion that they used the AI tool to generate their assignment. He then asked ChatGPT if it wrote the papers of his students. The chatbot did not hesitate to take credit for the school works of his student.
Digital Trends notes that ChatGPT is not an AI plagiarism checker. Instead, it typically takes credit for most of the original written work, including excerpts of classical novels written even before AI took the world by storm.
These days, academics have been using tools to detect plagiarism in written work. While ChatGPT does all sorts of things, such as writing a poem or computer coding, it fails to detect plagiarism.
Professor Fails Entire Class
The instructor emailed his students that he used ChatGPT to determine if they cheated on their final paper. And if the chatbot asserts that they just copied their schoolwork, Mumm warns them they will receive an X grade for their course.
As the AI bot told Mumm that ChatGPT generated all of their papers, he failed each one. These students he flunked have already marched the stage during their recent graduation. But due to the failing remark, Rolling Stone notes that the cheating accusation temporarily denied them their diplomas.
Some students have tried proving that they wrote their papers to clear their names. To do so, they provided timestamps on their Google Documents to prove their innocence.
But despite that, Mumm still insisted that they cheated on their final paper. His response was straightforward. He notes on the grading system software that "I [do not] grade AI bulls***."
Rolling Stones reports that one of the students has successfully proven otherwise, leading Mumm to apologize afterward.
Meanwhile, PC Magazine reports that Texas A&M University says they are aware of the matter. However, it clarified that all of their students have succeeded due to the issue. But due to the incident, their diplomas are temporarily on hold as the investigation rolls out.
