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.

Studierende bemerken zunehmend, dass ihre Professor:innen GMLS nutzen sowohl für Unterrichtsmaterial als auch für Feedback zu eingereichten Arbeiten und sind darüber gar nicht glücklich.

The New York Times reported on Ella Stapleton, a senior at Northeastern University, who discovered her business professor had quietly used ChatGPT to generate lecture slides—even though the syllabus explicitly forbade students from doing the same. While reviewing the slides on leadership theory, she found a leftover prompt embedded in the slides: “Expand on all areas. Be more detailed and specific.” The PowerPoints were full of giveaways: mangled AI images of office workers with extra limbs, garbled text, and spelling errors. “He’s telling us not to use it,” Stapleton said, “and then he’s using it himself.” Furious, she filed a complaint demanding an $8,000 refund, her share of that semester’s tuition. The professor, Dr. Rick Arrowood, admitted using ChatGPT for his slides to “give them a fresh look,” then conceded. “In hindsight, I wish I would have looked at it more closely.”