LLMMedium
Student Reportedly Files Complaint Over Professor's Undisclosed Use of Generative AI at Northeastern University
- Occurred
- May 14, 2025
- Published
- May 14, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A student at Northeastern University reportedly filed a complaint after discovering that a professor had used generative AI tools, including ChatGPT, to produce course materials despite university policies discouraging undisclosed AI use. The student alleged hypocrisy, citing a syllabus that barred unauthorized AI use by students. The professor acknowledged having used AI-generated materials and expressed regret over not reviewing them more carefully. No tuition refund was reportedly granted.
Developers
- Perplexity
- OpenAI
- Gamma.app
Deployers
- Rick Arrowood
Harmed parties
- Rick Arrowood
- Northeastern University students
- Northeastern University
- Ella Stapleton
- University students
- Educational communities
Tags
- AI use in higher education
- University
- Professor
- Student
- Student complaint about AI use
- AI use by faculty
- ChatGPT use by faculty
- Large language model
- LLM
- Education
- Educational trust
- Academic integrity
- Tuition
- Institutional policy
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Incident involves undisclosed use of generative AI tools by a professor, fitting LLM category with medium severity due to policy violation and complaint.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8