Texas Professor Accuses Students of Cheating with AI, Threatens to Fail Whole Class

A professor at Texas A&M University allegedly flunked his entire class after the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT took credit for writing their final papers. The bot reported it had written every single one of the students’ papers, leading the professor to give them all an “incomplete” grade in the course. Some students say they provided the professor proof that they hadn’t used ChatGPT via timestamps on Google Documents, but he initially ignored the evidence. ChatGPT doesn’t have an official feature made to detect writings generated by AI, and in the past has claimed credit for original pieces, including passages from the classic novel “Crime and Punishment.”