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Incident 538: Texas A&M-Commerce Professor Reportedly Used ChatGPT to Accuse Students of Cheating and Assign Incomplete Grades

Description: On May 15, 2023, Texas A&M University-Commerce instructor Jared Mumm reportedly emailed animal-science seniors that he had copied their final assignments into ChatGPT and would assign zeros or temporary incompletes when the chatbot claimed the text was AI-generated. Students said the accusations caused panic and put graduation or diplomas at risk; the university later said no students failed or were barred from graduating because of the issue.

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Alleged: OpenAI developed an AI system deployed by Jared Mumm and Professors, which harmed Texas A&M University students , University students , students and Educational communities.
Alleged implicated AI system: ChatGPT

Incident Stats

Incident ID
538
Report Count
5
Incident Date
2023-05-15
Editors
Khoa Lam, Sean McGregor, Daniel Atherton
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
 

7.3. Lack of capability or robustness

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. AI system safety, failures, and limitations

Entity

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

Human

Timing

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Post-deployment

Intent

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

Unintentional

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
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Reddit: @DearKick

Reddit: @DearKick

reddit.com

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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

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College instructor put on blast for accusing students of using ChatGPT

College instructor put on blast for accusing students of using ChatGPT

nbcnews.com

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Professor to students: ChatGPT told me to fail you

Professor to students: ChatGPT told me to fail you

insidehighered.com

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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

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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

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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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