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Incident 721: Fake AI-Generated Students Are Reportedly Enrolling in Online College Classes

Description: Reportedly, an adjunct professor at an unspecified community college suspects that some students in his online art history and art appreciation courses are AI-powered spambots. These "students" allegedly submit peculiar assignments, such as analyses of non-existent artworks and descriptions of sculptures using painting terminology. Additionally, their engagement with the college portal is minimal. The professor believes the spambot students aim to fraudulently obtain financial aid by remaining enrolled in courses.
Editor Notes: Please also refer to Incident 1038: Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid. While no specific link has been established, the incidents appear to reflect similar patterns of AI-assisted enrollment fraud. They are treated as distinct due to lack of direct evidence connecting them.

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Alleged: Unknown spambot creators et scammers developed an AI system deployed by Fraudsters et Financial aid scammers, which harmed students , Professors , Community colleges et Academic staff.
Système d'IA présumé impliqué: Unknown generative AI systems

Statistiques d'incidents

ID
721
Nombre de rapports
1
Date de l'incident
2024-06-04
Editeurs
Daniel Atherton
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

Classifications de taxonomie MIT

Machine-Classified
Détails de la taxonomie

Risk Subdomain

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

4.3. Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation

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. Malicious Actors & Misuse

Entity

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

AI

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

Rapports d'incidents

Chronologie du rapport

Incident OccurrenceAI spambots invade community college classroom, professor puzzled
AI spambots invade community college classroom, professor puzzled

AI spambots invade community college classroom, professor puzzled

cybernews.com

AI spambots invade community college classroom, professor puzzled
cybernews.com · 2024

One professor believes that some of his students are actually AI-powered spambots designed to steal valuable resources from community colleges.

As reported via Medium, one adjunct faculty instructor at an unknown community college is having…

Variantes

Une "Variante" est un incident qui partage les mêmes facteurs de causalité, produit des dommages similaires et implique les mêmes systèmes intelligents qu'un incident d'IA connu. Plutôt que d'indexer les variantes comme des incidents entièrement distincts, nous listons les variations d'incidents sous le premier incident similaire soumis à la base de données. Contrairement aux autres types de soumission à la base de données des incidents, les variantes ne sont pas tenues d'avoir des rapports en preuve externes à la base de données des incidents. En savoir plus sur le document de recherche.

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