Student loses Court Case over Plagiarism and Use of AI

[jedishrfu]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...it-punished-student-for-using-ai-court-rules/

A federal court yesterday ruled against parents who sued a Massachusetts school district for punishing their son who used an artificial intelligence tool to complete an assignment.

Dale and Jennifer Harris sued Hingham High School officials and the School Committee and sought a preliminary injunction requiring the school to change their son's grade and expunge the incident from his disciplinary record before he needs to submit college applications. The parents argued that there was no rule against using AI in the student handbook, but school officials said the student violated multiple policies.

Notably, the school cites plagiarism and ethics rules after a teacher used AI to uncover the plagiarism of text generated by a Grammarly AI.

There were some fake book references and other issues with their project. The court didn't challenge the use of AI to identify AI. I suspect a good lawyer could have challenged that asking for proof in how it determined the text was written by AI.

In Texas, there was a case where a college prof used AI to look for AI generated reports in one of his assignments. He flunked all his students for it and jeopardized their graduation. It was later thrown out due to the inability of the tool to positively identify AI generated text.

https://www.rollingstone.com/cultur...ssor-flunks-students-false-claims-1234736601/

Dr. Jared Mumm, a campus rodeo instructor who also teaches agricultural classes, sent an email on Monday to a group of students informing them that he had submitted grades for their last three essay assignments of the semester. Everyone would be receiving an “X” in the course, Mumm explained, because he had used “Chat GTP” (the OpenAI chatbot is actually called “ChatGPT“) to test whether they’d used the software to write the papers — and the bot claimed to have authored every single one.

“I copy and paste your responses in [ChatGPT] and [it] will tell me if the program generated the content,” he wrote, saying he had tested each paper twice. He offered the class a makeup assignment to avoid the failing grade — which could otherwise, in theory, threaten their graduation status.