Generative AI Plagiarism Incident at Hingham High School Reportedly Tied to Inaccurate Citation Outputs from Grammarly AI

Summary

In December 2023, two Hingham High School students ("RNH" and unnamed) reportedly used Grammarly to create a script for an AP U.S. History project. The AI-generated text included fabricated citations to nonexistent books, which the student copied and pasted without verification or acknowledgment of AI use. This violated the school's academic integrity policies, leading to disciplinary action. RNH's parents later sued the school district, but a federal court ruled in favor of the school.

Developers

• Grammarly

Deployers

• Hingham High School students
• Hingham High School student RNH

Harmed parties

• Hingham High School students
• Hingham High School student RNH
• Hingham High School
• Academic integrity
• Students
• High school students
• Epistemic integrity
• Educational communities