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Texas A&M-Commerce Professor Reportedly Used ChatGPT to Accuse Students of Cheating and Assign Incomplete Grades
- Occurred
- May 15, 2023
- Published
- May 19, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
On May 15, 2023, Texas A&M University-Commerce instructor Jared Mumm reportedly emailed animal-science seniors that he had copied their final assignments into ChatGPT and would assign zeros or temporary incompletes when the chatbot claimed the text was AI-generated. Students said the accusations caused panic and put graduation or diplomas at risk; the university later said no students failed or were barred from graduating because of the issue.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Chatbot developers
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- Professors
- Jared Mumm
Harmed parties
- University students
- Texas A&M University students
- Students
- Educational communities
- Epistemic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Professor misused ChatGPT for academic integrity, creating controversy over graduation status.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8