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AI Incidents

Open-Source Generative Models Abused by Students to Cheat on Assignments and Exams

September 15, 2022

Students were reportedly using open-source text generative models such as GPT-3 and ChatGPT to complete school assignments and exams such as writing reports, essays.
Alleged deployer
students
Alleged developer
sudowrite, openai
Alleged harmed parties
teachers, non-cheating-students, cheating-students

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/339

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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