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Simone Rotella
ON A Monday afternoon in May, a final-year student, fresh off the Texas A&M University-Commerce graduation stage, received a shocking email. “The final grade for the course is due today at 5 p.m.,” it read. “I will be giving everyone in this course an… incomplete.”
According to a report in the Washington Post, agricultural sciences professor Jared Mumm had run his students’ essays through the AI tool ChatGPT, which had detected its own use in the work – an offence that warranted a zero on the assignment. But in reality, it was ChatGPT that was the plagiariser, incorrectly claiming…