Instructor Accuses Entire Texas A&M Class of Using ChatGPT, Withholds Grades
In a startling example of how ChatGPT can disrupt education, a university instructor punished an entire class over claims they used the chatbot program to cheat on their final assignments.
“I will not grade ChatGPT shit,” the Texas A&M University-Commerce instructor allegedly wrote on the school's grading software.
The fiancé of one of the affected students detailed the incident in a Monday Reddit post(Opens in a new window) that has since gone viral. According to a screenshot, the instructor temporarily gave every student an “X” incomplete grade over alleged ChatGPT use on three final essays about agricultural science.
“The professor elected not to grade them until today, (graduation was yesterday) so now the university is withholding an entire class’s diplomas after they walked the stage,” the post says.
The only problem is that the teacher used a dubious method to check for cheating: running each student’s paper through ChatGPT and asking the AI program whether it wrote the essay or not.
“In Grading your last three assignments I have opened my own account for Chat GTP [sic],” the teacher wrote. “I copy and paste your responses in this account and Chat GTP will tell me if the program generated the content. I put everyone's last three assignments through two separate times and if they were both claimed by Chat GTP you received a 0.”
Those on the Reddit thread were quick to point out(Opens in a new window) that ChatGPT can mistakenly claim it wrote an article when it did not. Indeed, today we ran snippets of PCMag articles a human actually authored, and ChatGPT erroneously said it had written the passage. In addition, the AI program has limited memory, along with no capability to recall conversation histories from
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