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Texas A&M Professor Misused ChatGPT to Detect AI Text Generation in Student Submissions

May 15, 2023

A Texas A&M-Commerce professor reportedly informed his class of his misuse of ChatGPT to detect whether student submissions had been generated by the chatbot itself, which informed their graduation status.
Alleged deployer
jared-mumm
Alleged developer
openai
Alleged harmed parties
texas-aandm-university-students

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/538

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