Professor freezes students' grades after ChatGPT claimed AI wrote their papers
An instructor has accused students taking his agriculture science class at the University of Texas A&M-Commerce of cheating by using AI software to write their essays.Reddit thread, Jared Mumm, a coordinator at the American university's department of agricultural sciences and natural resources, informed students he used ChatGPT to assess whether their submitted assignments were human-written or produced by computer.
"I will be giving everyone in this course an X," he reportedly told his class, and apparently told several students:"I'm not grading AI s***." "A&M-Commerce confirms that no students failed the class or were barred from graduating because of this issue," the institutionin a statement."University officials are investigating the incident and developing policies to address the use or misuse of AI technology in the classroom.
One person familiar with the brouhaha at the uni told us:"So far it seems the situation is mostly resolved: the school admitted to students that the grades should not have been withheld in the first place. It was completely out of protocol and an inappropriate use of ChatGPT. They haven’t addressed the foul language in accusations yet."
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