Nancy: Professor refuses to correct copies due to excessive use of chatgpt

Copies returned with perfect spelling

120 first-year BUT (University Bachelor of Technology) students' copies were not corrected by their IUT Charlemagne de Nancy lecturer due to an excessive usage of artificial intelligence software ChatGPT. «This is a class of about 120 first-year students, enrolled in the diploma GOAL technique de commercialisation, who had to give a written document on the spa, within the framework of the project Nancy Thermal», explained this Monday Samuel Cruz-Lara, the director of IUT Charlemagne, confirming information from the local press.

The lecturers in charge of the correction discovered that the students had exploited ChatGPT while completing the marketing tasks since their copies lacked even the most basic spelling errors, or were composed of searched sentences.”, pursued Samuel Cruz-Lara. If we had had more time, we could have asked the students to explain themselves, which we did with some who recognized things half-heartedly. Except that it’s the end of the academic year and the timing is complicated for us to react.”

Students will still have a score

The professor in charge of the subject decided, in a collegial manner, with her other colleagues in the module, not to correct the disputed written test. The director of the IUT wants to reassure himself: «Students will still have a grade in this subject, they will not be penalized». Given the responses after the initial pieces in the local news, Samuel Cruz-Lara stated, "All this is taking on proportions that I did not expect because we are neither the only ones nor the first ones."

For the future, the director of the IUT decided not to cut off access to this kind of tool from the IUT, but to engage the students in a benefit-hazard To assist them in using ChatGPT and to facilitate conversation. An amendment to the rules of procedure of the IUT is also being considered: «We already had a paragraph on plagiarism, I will ask to add one concerning artificial intelligence tools, whose use will be sanctioned as well as plagiarism». The IUT Charlemagne is a part of the University of Lorraine, which has not yet "taken a general decision" on the usage of artificial intelligence.