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Incident 538: Texas A&M Professor Misused ChatGPT to Detect AI Text Generation in Student Submissions

Description: 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.

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Alleged: OpenAI developed an AI system deployed by Jared Mumm, which harmed Texas A&M University students.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
538
Report Count
5
Incident Date
2023-05-15
Editors
Khoa Lam, Sean McGregor
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

5.1. Overreliance and unsafe use

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. Human-Computer Interaction

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

Human

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Intentional

Incident Reports

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Incident OccurrenceReddit: @DearKickProfessor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their PapersCollege instructor put on blast for accusing students of using ChatGPT+1
Professor to students: ChatGPT told me to fail you
Reddit: @DearKick

Reddit: @DearKick

reddit.com

Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers

Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers

rollingstone.com

College instructor put on blast for accusing students of using ChatGPT

College instructor put on blast for accusing students of using ChatGPT

nbcnews.com

Professor to students: ChatGPT told me to fail you

Professor to students: ChatGPT told me to fail you

insidehighered.com

Half of the class couldn't graduate because they were suspected of using ChatGPT to write essays

Half of the class couldn't graduate because they were suspected of using ChatGPT to write essays

vietnamnet.vn

Reddit: @DearKick
reddit.com · 2023

Texas A&M commerce professor fails entire class of seniors blocking them from graduating- claiming they all use “Chat GTP”

Professor left responses in several students grading software stating “I’m not grading AI shit” lol

Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers
rollingstone.com · 2023

A number of seniors at Texas A&M University–Commerce who already walked the stage at graduation this year have been temporarily denied their diplomas after a professor ineptly used AI software to assess their final assignments, the partner …

College instructor put on blast for accusing students of using ChatGPT
nbcnews.com · 2023

Texas A&M University–Commerce said it is investigating after a screenshot of an instructor's email — in which he accused students of having used artificial intelligence on their final assignments — went viral on Reddit.

Jared Mumm, an instr…

Professor to students: ChatGPT told me to fail you
insidehighered.com · 2023

“I will not grade this chat Gpt shit,” Jared Mumm, an agricultural sciences and natural resources instructor at Texas A&M University–Commerce, wrote to one of his students this week, according to The Washington Post. Mumm had suspected that…

Half of the class couldn't graduate because they were suspected of using ChatGPT to write essays
vietnamnet.vn · 2023
AI Translated

Recently, Mr. Jared Mumm - professor of Texas A&M University (USA), put the student's graduation essay into ChatGPT for checking. The purpose of this job is to see which students use OpenAI's chatbot to do homework.

"I will check the studen…

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