WF-GF77UM
Turnitin's ChatGPT-Detection Tool Falsely Flagged Student Essays as AI-Generated
Turnitin's tool to detect writing generated by ChatGPT was reported for incorrectly flagging high school students' original essays as AI-generated, accusations of which are argued as reinforcement of bias from teachers due to the inability to compare against source documents.
- Date it happened
- 2023-01-20
- Organisation involved
- Turnitin
- Product, system or model
- Turnitin
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