A group of senior students at Texas A&M University–Commerce had their graduation plans temporarily derailed after a professor misused AI software and falsely accused multiple students of using ChatGPT to complete coursework.
A group of senior students at Texas A&M University–Commerce had their graduation plans temporarily derailed after a professor misused AI software and falsely accused multiple students of using ChatGPT to complete coursework. Students fought back against the baseless claims, including one student who showed ChatGPT claiming credit for the professor’s own dissertation.
He wrote, “I copy and paste your responses in [ChatGPT] and [it] will tell me if the program generated the content,” adding that he had tested each paper twice. In order to avoid the failing grade, which could theoretically jeopardize the class’s ability to graduate, he offered them a make-up assignment.
The unexpected turn of events shocked and irritated the students. Mumm reportedly rejected their claims of innocence despite them providing evidence to the contrary, such as timestamps on the Google Documents they used for their assignments. In a public online forum, a user identifying as “DearKick,” who claimed to be engaged to one of the affected students, relayed his partner’s experience stating that she had never heard of ChatGPT herself and was confused by the accusation.
Another Reddit user, with the username “Delicious_Village112,” exposed the flaw in Mumm’s methodology by running a portion of Mumm’s own doctoral dissertation and his email to students through ChatGPT, where the AI bot claimed to have also written the content. The AI bot stated: “Yes, the passage you shared could indeed have been generated by a language model like ChatGPT, given the right prompt. The text contains several characteristics that are consistent with AI-generated content.
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