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Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash
- Occurred
- Feb 16, 2023
- Published
- Feb 21, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
On February 16, 2023, Vanderbilt University's Peabody College Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion reportedly sent students a message about the Michigan State University shooting that disclosed it had been drafted or paraphrased using ChatGPT. Students reportedly criticized the message as impersonal and disrespectful in a moment of grief. Peabody later apologized for "poor judgment," and two EDI deans temporarily stepped back during a review.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- Vanderbilt University
- Vanderbilt University Peabody College Office of Equity Diversity and Inclusion
Harmed parties
- Vanderbilt University students
- Vanderbilt University
- Students
- Universities
- University students
- Educators
- Professors
- Educational communities
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: ChatGPT generated impersonal content causing controversy and student backlash.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8