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Professors

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 48220 Report
Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

2023-02-16

On February 16, 2023, Vanderbilt University's Peabody College Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion reportedly sent students a message about the Michigan State University shooting that disclosed it had been drafted or paraphrased using ChatGPT. Students reportedly criticized the message as impersonal and disrespectful in a moment of grief. Peabody later apologized for "poor judgment," and two EDI deans temporarily stepped back during a review.

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Incident 7211 Report
Reported Use of Purportedly AI-Generated Student Accounts in Online College Courses

2024-06-04

An adjunct professor at an unspecified community college reportedly suspected that some students in his online art history and art appreciation courses are AI-powered spambots. These "students" allegedly submitted peculiar assignments, such as analyses of non-existent artworks and descriptions of sculptures using painting terminology. Additionally, their engagement with the college portal is reportedly minimal. The professor reportedly believed the spambot students aimed to fraudulently obtain financial aid by remaining enrolled in courses.

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Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 5385 Report
Texas A&M-Commerce Professor Reportedly Used ChatGPT to Accuse Students of Cheating and Assign Incomplete Grades

2023-05-15

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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Incident 4244 Report
Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

2020-03-09

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian universities reportedly used AI-enabled remote-proctoring tools for online exams. A University of Ottawa project supported by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada found that tools such as Respondus Monitor, ProctorU, ProctorTrack, Proctorio, ProctorExam, and Examity collected student personal or biometric data under conditions not conducive to meaningful consent.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Canadian universities

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

Universities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 482
    20 Reports

    Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

Educators

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 482
    20 Reports

    Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

Respondus Monitor

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

ProctorU

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

ProctorTrack

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

Proctorio

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

ProctorExam

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

Examity

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

Canadian students

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

students

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 482
    20 Reports

    Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

  • Incident 538
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

University students

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 482
    20 Reports

    Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

  • Incident 538
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Educational communities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 482
    20 Reports

    Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

  • Incident 538
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

ProctorU remote proctoring software

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

Remote exam proctoring systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

Biometric proctoring systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 424
    4 Reports

    Canadian Universities’ AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent

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Entity

Vanderbilt University

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 482
    20 Reports

    Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 482
    20 Reports

    Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

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Entity

Vanderbilt University Peabody College Office of Equity Diversity and Inclusion

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 482
    20 Reports

    Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

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Entity

OpenAI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 482
    20 Reports

    Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

  • Incident 538
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Vanderbilt University students

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 482
    20 Reports

    Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

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Entity

ChatGPT

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 482
    20 Reports

    Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

  • Incident 538
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 482
    20 Reports

    Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash

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Entity

Jared Mumm

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 538
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Texas A&M University students

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 538
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Unknown scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 721
    1 Report

    Reported Use of Purportedly AI-Generated Student Accounts in Online College Courses

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Entity

Financial aid scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 721
    1 Report

    Reported Use of Purportedly AI-Generated Student Accounts in Online College Courses

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Entity

Unknown spambot creators

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 721
    1 Report

    Reported Use of Purportedly AI-Generated Student Accounts in Online College Courses

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Entity

Unknown generative AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 721
    1 Report

    Reported Use of Purportedly AI-Generated Student Accounts in Online College Courses

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 721
    1 Report

    Reported Use of Purportedly AI-Generated Student Accounts in Online College Courses

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 721
    1 Report

    Reported Use of Purportedly AI-Generated Student Accounts in Online College Courses

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Entity

Community colleges

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 721
    1 Report

    Reported Use of Purportedly AI-Generated Student Accounts in Online College Courses

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Entity

Academic staff

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 721
    1 Report

    Reported Use of Purportedly AI-Generated Student Accounts in Online College Courses

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Entity

Unknown generative AI systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 721
    1 Report

    Reported Use of Purportedly AI-Generated Student Accounts in Online College Courses

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