Student Loses Scholarship Due to AI
A University of North Georgia student Marley Stevens lost her scholarship after being accused of using artificial intelligence for using the Grammarly spell-checking program.
Despite this tool being recommended by the university, a six-month investigation led to academic probation and scholarship loss due to GPA reduction. Earlier, several Texas A&M University-Commerce graduates didn’t receive their diplomas.
After a professor accused the entire class of using ChatGPT, based solely on checking work through the service itself. Experts emphasize that ChatGPT cannot reliably identify AI-generated texts.
The popular US education AI detection tool Turnitin gives more false positives when generated text portions are less than twenty percent. The company itself recommends not using check results as the sole basis for student punishment.
And emphasizes the importance of knowing students’ individual writing styles. Apparently, soon students will need to not only write papers but also collect evidence that they wrote them themselves. For example, video recordings of the process with three witnesses.
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