PhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPT
Haishan Yang was studying at the University of Minnesota for his second Ph. D., in health administration (his first was in economics). Before he could start his thesis, he needed to do a remote ex…
It’s honestly wild the state of things. I’m currently going through community college and they make you sign a thing saying you won’t use ai but it is written with ai and the only thing it seems the teachers actually make (the syllabus) has blatant ai generated images and text all throughout.
I mean... ask ChatGPT if it wrote the essays. Why would it lie?
There are some tip-offs when content is written by AI but good prompting or just rewriting can easily remove.
The university's "five professors who subjectively agreed it must be AI" because they tried themselves sounds like something University would do. This just won't hack it for future AI detection.
IMO these institutions need to make their peace with AI because all smart people naturally find fast ways to get things done easier.
