Professor Fails Entire Class As ChatGPT Falsely Takes Credit For Students’ Papers (16 Tweets
A professor at Texas A&M failed his entire class after he pasted their papers into ChatGPT, asked if it wrote them, and ChatGPT said yes.
The problem is that while students definitely use ChatGPT to cheat (I certainly would), ChatGPT will also say yes to almost anything if you phrase the question that way — it’s a language model, not a plagiarism detector. It doesn’t actually know if it wrote something. It just responds in whatever way seems most helpful in the moment, which in this case meant confidently taking credit for work it had nothing to do with.
So a bunch of students who wrote their own papers got failing grades and had their graduations held up because their professor used the tool wrong and took its word for it. The whole thing became a mess after people started tweeting about it and it’s a pretty good example of why “just ask ChatGPT” isn’t a strategy for anything important.
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