{"id":27754,"date":"2025-05-14T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27754"},"modified":"2025-05-14T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T09:30:08","slug":"college-professors-are-using-chatgpt-some-students-arent-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27754","title":{"rendered":"College Professors Are Using ChatGPT. Some Students Aren\u2019t Happy."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs.<\/p>\n

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In February, Ella Stapleton, then a senior at Northeastern University, was reviewing lecture notes from her organizational behavior class when she noticed something odd. Was that a query to ChatGPT from her professor?<\/p>\n

Halfway through the document, which her business professor had made for a lesson on models of leadership, was an instruction to ChatGPT to \u201cexpand on all areas. Be more detailed and specific.\u201d It was followed by a list of positive and negative leadership traits, each with a prosaic definition and a bullet-pointed example.<\/p>\n

Ms. Stapleton texted a friend in the class.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you see the notes he put on Canvas?\u201d she wrote, referring to the university\u2019s software platform for hosting course materials. \u201cHe made it with ChatGPT.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOMG Stop,\u201d the classmate responded. \u201cWhat the hell?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Stapleton decided to do some digging. She reviewed her professor\u2019s slide presentations and discovered other telltale signs of A.I.: distorted text, photos of office workers with extraneous body parts and egregious misspellings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She was not happy. Given the school\u2019s cost and reputation, she expected a top-tier education. This course was required for her business minor; its syllabus forbade \u201cacademically dishonest activities,\u201d including the unauthorized use of artificial intelligence or chatbots.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s telling us not to use it, and then he\u2019s using it himself,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Ms. Stapleton filed a formal complaint with Northeastern\u2019s business school, citing the undisclosed use of A.I. as well as other issues she had with his teaching style, and requested reimbursement of tuition for that class. As a quarter of the total bill for the semester, that would be more than $8,000.<\/p>\n

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Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs.In February, Ella Stapleton, then a senior at Northeastern University, was reviewing lecture notes from her organizational behavior class when she noticed something odd. Was that a query to ChatGPT from her professor?Halfway through the document, which her business professor had made for a lesson on models of leadership, was an instruction to ChatGPT to \u201cexpand on all areas. Be more detailed and specific.\u201d It was followed by a list of positive and negative leadership traits, each with a prosaic definition and a bullet-pointed example.Ms. Stapleton texted a friend in the class.\u201cDid you see the notes he put on Canvas?\u201d she wrote, referring to the university\u2019s software platform for hosting course materials. \u201cHe made it with ChatGPT.\u201d\u201cOMG Stop,\u201d the classmate responded. \u201cWhat the hell?\u201dMs. Stapleton decided to do some digging. She reviewed her professor\u2019s slide presentations and discovered other telltale signs of A.I.: distorted text, photos of office workers with extraneous body parts and egregious misspellings.She was not happy. Given the school\u2019s cost and reputation, she expected a top-tier education. This course was required for her business minor; its syllabus forbade \u201cacademically dishonest activities,\u201d including the unauthorized use of artificial intelligence or chatbots.\u201cHe\u2019s telling us not to use it, and then he\u2019s using it himself,\u201d she said.Ms. Stapleton filed a formal complaint with Northeastern\u2019s business school, citing the undisclosed use of A.I. as well as other issues she had with his teaching style, and requested reimbursement of tuition for that class. As a quarter of the total bill for the semester, that would be more than $8,000.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27756,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27757,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27754\/revisions\/27757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}