Turnitin's ChatGPT-Detection Tool Falsely Flagged Student Essays as AI-Generated
January 20, 2023
Turnitin's tool to detect writing generated by ChatGPT was reported for incorrectly flagging high school students' original essays as AI-generated, accusations of which are argued as reinforcement of bias from teachers due to the inability to compare against source documents.
- Alleged deployer
- turnitin
- Alleged developer
- turnitin
- Alleged harmed parties
- lucy-goetz, high-school-students
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/514
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