Comment by jstarfish

What a shitshow.

> Stivers received an email from her professor indicating that a portion of it had been flagged by Turnitin as AI-written

> Last month, a Texas professor incorrectly used ChatGPT in trying to assess whether students had completed an assignment using that software. It claimed to have written every essay he fed in — so he temporarily withheld a whole class’ final grades.

> William Quarterman, a senior and history major at the college. A professor had run his exam answers through an AI detection called GPTZero, which returned a positive result. The professor gave Quarterman a failing grade and referred him to the same student affairs office

Let's let professors indict students based on untested (and amateur) AI algorithms that not even the vendors completely comprehend and subject the accused to a process in which they are presumed guilty until they prove their innocence-- while they mortgage their future paying 5 to 6 figures for the privilege.

These are the real AI "safety" issues that need to be addressed. The only "danger" posed by AI is in its total lack of accountability. This is outright abusive behavior on the part of colleges, who wasted no time in weaponizing it to conduct virtual arbitration. The irony of an AI system flagging students for copying what someone else wrote is apparently lost on everyone.