A U.S. court ruled in favor of a faculty that had punished a student for writing an task using a synthetic intelligence (AI) tool. This incident became the primary case in the USA to confess to AI misconduct in schools.
Reuters reported on the twenty first (local time) that the U.S. District Court in Boston ruled that officials at Hingham High School in Massachusetts “got here to an inexpensive conclusion” that their use of an AI tool in an task violated academic integrity rules. did it
Accordingly, the request for deletion of disciplinary records and restoration of grades submitted by parents was dismissed. The plaintiff parents filed a request for a preliminary injunction, stating that the college doesn’t have clear guidelines on the best way to handle AI when students use it.
“The emergence of generative AI may present subtle challenges for educators,” said Judge Paul Levinson. “But the college’s plagiarism policy is sufficient to warn students that they can’t copy text from one other source and pass it off as their very own.”
However the parents’ attorney said they might appeal, saying, “This ruling is preliminary in nature, and we stay up for further developing the factual record because the case continues.”
Parents filed a lawsuit last December after school officials disciplined their son for copying and pasting text generated by a web-based AI tool without citing the source when his son was in third grade.
Nevertheless, the judge said, “The evidence shows that the coed and his friend didn’t use AI to research the research topic, but slightly indiscriminately copied the text produced by the AI tool and didn’t review the sources provided by the AI in any respect.”
The AI tool used for cheating was often called ‘Grammarly’, which helps with writing.
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com
