Northeastern College Student Demanded Her Tuition Fees Back After Catching Her Professor Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Fortune ^ | May 15, 2025 | Beatrice Nolan

[ClearCase_guy]

Learn a trade.
College is for losers.

[nickcarraway]

The sad part is, not only didn't he use it he didn't even edit it enough to take out the obvious things. If people are going to use AI, don't they actually check it's work.

It's like the lawyer who used it for a legal filing, and just asked it if all the citations are real, but if he had checked even one, he would have found out they were all made up.

[bigdaddy45]

The professors generate their lectures using AI, and the student write papers and do research using AI. College is increasingly becoming a total waste of money.

[plain talk]

““In hindsight…I wish I would have looked at it more closely,” he told the outlet”

In other words he wished he had reworded it more and made it look less obvious that he stole it from AI.

[Getready]

I once asked a psychiatrist (who worked at a hospital I used to work at) if he found that people were becoming “stupid” with the use of the internet
He told me that people were losing their ability to remember . They no longer have to remember anything. All the info is available without retrieving it from their mind.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

After a series of meetings, Northeastern ultimately decided to reject the senior’s claim.

Now there's a surprise.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

He told me that people were losing their ability to remember . They no longer have to remember anything. All the info is available without retrieving it from their mind.

I have to agree with this. If you look at historical sources you'll always come away with the impression that people's memories were much better than they are in modern times. And no wonder.

[hanamizu]

“...people’s memories were much better than they are in modern times.”

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From what I’ve read, people who are illiterate (not because of low IQ) have phenomenal memories. Perhaps the part of the brain that deals with literacy originally was used for long-term memory.

[one guy in new jersey]

“...he wished he had reworded it more and made it look less obvious that he stole it from AI.”

That’s sure what it sounded like, yes!

Stealing AI-generated content without attribution being a victimless crime, why sweat admitting it!

[tiki]

That’s why it’s 70 years old I memorize new prayers . I also make myself wrack my brain for at least an hour before I will relook it up on the internet.

[Tired of Taxes]

Is he a tenured professor? Because most professors are not.

Most professors teach courses at multiple colleges, just to make ends meet.

So, of course, they are going to look for shortcuts.

[Varsity Flight]

A. I. “How I became a brain surgeon”

* Uncle Jeb showed me how. - Jethro

[metmom]

“In hindsight…I wish I would have looked at it more closely,” he told the outlet, adding that he now believes that professors ought to give careful thought to integrating AI and be transparent with students about when and how they use it.

IOW, he wishes he had been more careful about hiding what he was doing.

[packrat35]

I’m sorry I got caught...

[packrat35]

She should sue.

[Political Junkie Too]

Aren't professors "professors" because they create original knowledge? Isn't that why students pay tuition, to learn from the masters of knowledge? Isn't that why the Master's degree precedes the Doctorate?

I'd want my money back, too, if I found out that my so-called professor needed someone else's notes to teach his class.

-PJ

[Jumpmaster]

“OK, that’s my happy spot”?

This from business faculty?

[metmom]

Close on 40 years ago, I had a college math prof and a high school English teacher bemoan the kids these days lack of ability to visualize stuff in their minds. They had almost no imagination and both said it was because with TV the input was being done for them. The images were being fed right into their eyes and the sound also was a given.

SO they had trouble imagining what was going on in a story and visualizing something like what shape you would get if you rotated circle about the Y axis of a graph. (Probably technically revolved it around, but the point was made.)

[Mr Ramsbotham]

From what I’ve read, people who are illiterate (not because of low IQ) have phenomenal memories.

Yes, as a matter of necessity! The same way blind people cultivate the other senses as a means of compensation.