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Re:University Suspends Students for AI Tool It Gave Them $10... by Rinzler89 on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @11:44AM (#40429943)
Universities and the professors there, often act as judge, jury and executioner on their fiefdoms. It's not like most students are wealthy enough to afford to sue the university for failing to objectively apply the rules they themselves set.
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Re:University Suspends Students for AI Tool It Gave Them $10... by dcow on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @11:53AM (#40430070)
This student was, from TFA.
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Re:University Suspends Students for AI Tool It Gave Them $10... by zamadatix on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @11:57AM (#40430146)
But this student is definitely not most.
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Re:University Suspends Students for AI Tool It Gave Them $10... by dcow on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @12:06PM (#40430270)
No, most students don’t win entrepreneurial competitions and then get suspended. I guess I’m missing the point.
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Re:University Suspends Students for AI Tool It Gave Them $10... by zamadatix on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @01:25PM (#40431295)
We expect school administrators to be ahead of others on this issue because of the power imbalance with their application of the policies to students. We're hearing about it because it happened to an anomalous student who was able to fight back. The initial reason remains even though we only read about it through the anomaly.

I.e. the point of this thread isn't around the specific case of the anomalous student, rather the issue raised around AI enforcement in schools and what it means for the typical student. And yes, average IT students will still get involved with situations around AI and their school - they just aren't going to make the news with a court case.

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