Fake AI-Generated Students Are Reportedly Enrolling in Online College Classes
June 4, 2024
Reportedly, an adjunct professor at an unspecified community college suspects that some students in his online art history and art appreciation courses are AI-powered spambots. These "students" allegedly submit peculiar assignments, such as analyses of non-existent artworks and descriptions of sculptures using painting terminology. Additionally, their engagement with the college portal is minimal. The professor believes the spambot students aim to fraudulently obtain financial aid by remaining enrolled in courses.
- Alleged deployer
- fraudsters, financial-aid-scammers
- Alleged developer
- unknown-spambot-creators, scammers
- Alleged harmed parties
- students, professors, community-colleges, academic-staff
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/721
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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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