People don’t go into life altering oppressive debt to go to a university to get served chatbot garbage that may or may not even be accurate.
Futurism May 14, 1:47 PM EDT by Noor Al-Sibai Student Livid After Catching Her Professor Using ChatGPT, Asks For Her Money Back When combing through those notes, the newly-matriculated student noticed a ChatGPT search citation, obvious misspellings, and images with extraneous limbs and digits — all hallmarks of AI use. “He’s telling us not to use it,” Stapleton said, “and then he’s using it himself.” Alarmed, the senior brought up the professor’s AI use with Northeastern’s administration and demanded her tuition back. After a series of meetings that ran all the way up until her graduation earlier this month, the school gave its final verdict: that she would not be getting her $8,000 in tuition back.
Of course if these universities disclosed that their professors are just teaching the classes with chatbots, then nobody sensible would pay that kind of money to go to these institutions. So there needs to be a law.
My letter to reps:
Attending university for most people requires life crushing amounts of debt and it’s offensive that universities can have professors using chatbots to teach without disclosing that fact up front to prospective students who are paying good money to get taught by educated experts, not AI slop that may or may not be accurate or hallucinations and may not even be fact checked. Universities should be required to disclose if professors are using chatbots, and if they breach this, there should be jail time attached to this for administrators and professors, not just financial refunds, given the amount of money on the line and the lifelong debt people might be in trying to get a good education.
Please feel free to copy or repurpose for your own letters to reps.