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

September 15, 2022

Open-source text generative models like GPT-3 and ChatGPT have allegedly been misused by students to complete school assignments and exams, raising concerns about the need for safe and secure AI practices.

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MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.670, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
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MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.659, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

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

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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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