Student Livid After Catching Her Professor Using ChatGPT, Asks For Her Money Back

Many students aren't allowed to use artificial intelligence to do their assignments — and when they catch their teachers doing so, they're often peeved. In an interview with the New York Times, one such student — Northeastern's Ella Stapleton — was shocked earlier this year when she began to suspect that her business professor had generated lecture notes with ChatGPT. When combing through those notes, the newly-matriculated student noticed a ChatGPT search citation, obvious misspellings, and images with extraneous limbs and digits — all hallmarks of AI use. "He’s telling us not to use it," Stapleton said, "and then he’s using it himself." Alarmed, the senior brought up the professor's AI use with Northeastern's administration and demanded her tuition back. After a series of meetings that ran all the way up until her graduation earlier this month, the school gave its final verdict: that she would not be getting her $8,000 in tuition back. Most of the educators the NYT spoke to — wh ... Read full article.