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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Yahoo
Student Livid After Catching Her Professor Using ChatGPT, Asks For Her Money Back
Many students aren't allowed to use artificial intelligence to do their assignments — and when they catch their teachers doing so, they're often peeved. In an interview with the New York Times, one such student — Northeastern's Ella Stapleton — was shocked earlier this year when she began to suspect that her business professor had generated lecture notes with ChatGPT. When combing through those notes, the newly-matriculated student noticed a ChatGPT search citation, obvious misspellings, and images with extraneous limbs and digits — all hallmarks of AI use. "He's telling us not to use it," Stapleton said, "and then he's using it himself." Alarmed, the senior brought up the professor's AI use with Northeastern's administration and demanded her tuition back. After a series of meetings that ran all the way up until her graduation earlier this month, the school gave its final verdict: that she would not be getting her $8,000 in tuition back. Most of the educators the NYT spoke to — who, like Stapleton's, had been caught by students using AI tools like ChatGPT — didn't think it was that big of a deal. To the mind of Paul Shovlin, an English teacher and AI fellow at Ohio University, there is no "one-size-fits-all" approach to using the burgeoning tech in the classroom. Students making their AI-using professors out to be "some kind of monster," as he put it, is "ridiculous." That take, which over-inflates the student's concerns to make her sound hystrionic, dismisses another burgeoning consensus: that others view the use of AI at work as lazy and look down upon people who use it. In a new study from Duke, business researchers found that people both anticipate and experience judgment from their colleagues for using AI at work. The study involved more than 4,400 people who, through a series of four experiments, indicated ample "evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI." "Our findings reveal a dilemma for people considering adopting AI tools," the researchers wrote. "Although AI can enhance productivity, its use carries social costs." For Stapleton's professor, Rick Arrowood, the Northeastern lecture notes scandal really drove that point home. Arrowood told the NYT that he used various AI tools — including ChatGPT, the Perplexity AI search engine, and an AI presentation generator called Gamma — to give his lectures a "fresh look." Though he claimed to have reviewed the outputs, he didn't catch the telltale AI signs that Stapleton saw. "In hindsight," he told the newspaper, "I wish I would have looked at it more closely." Arrowood said he's now convinced professors should think harder about using AI and disclose to their students when and how it's used — a new stance indicating that the debacle was, for him, a teachable moment. "If my experience can be something people can learn from," he told the NYT, "then, OK, that's my happy spot." More on AI in school: Teachers Using AI to Grade Their Students' Work Sends a Clear Message: They Don't Matter, and Will Soon Be Obsolete
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘Topic around the office': Security fencing company hoping to provide for the NFL Draft
MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. (WFRV) – Thousands of feet of fencing, both for the NFL Draft itself and private events in the area, are estimated to be needed. Menomonee Falls' Northway Fence is hoping to get a piece of the action if possible. NFL provides security procedures for 2025 Draft in Green Bay; including entry requirements, prohibited items 'It's been a topic around the office that with the draft coming to Green Bay, there would be a higher potential for us to move up there and possibly capture some of the corporate events or even the draft itself,' salesperson Chris Arrowood said. 'That would be a huge thing.' Arrowood says his temporary fence offers flexible options and setups to fit any kind of event. 'We primarily focus on commercial chain link fence,' he said. 'We also offer temporary fences. Gates can be installed as needed.' Arrowood already supplies events for large regional and national events like Summerfest, the Harley Davidson Homecoming Festival, and is hopeful to add XRoads 41 to the mix. 'It's been a good market as far as helping out with events,' he said. 'We've been trying to get our foot in the door with some of these bigger projects.' Construction project managers are also part of the clientele that Arrowood serves, but he says that events are an even easier engagement to provide fencing for. 'The nice part about events is it's a scheduled date,' Arrowood said. 'Unlike the typical construction world of an ever-changing schedule, at least we know what the date is, and be there to do the setup in advance.' Click here for more of Local 5's coverage of the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay He says there is minimal concern to grass and the ground as a result of the easy setup, compared to other longer-term or more permanent fencing options. 'They're held up by stands and sandbags, so it doesn't have any impact on the ground,' Arrowood said. 'Short term, it doesn't burn out the grass or anything like that.' A popular add-on for private events that Arrowood commonly sees is privacy screening. 'You can add privacy screening, which has been a popular option among some clients, dividing between a VIP area and general admission,' he said. Need last-minute changes? Arrowood says his team can often make that happen. 'They go up fairly fast, go up, go down, they stack nicely for us to get in and out, and it does provide flexibility for the day of the event if something does have to change, you don't have to rip something up and try to reorganize,' he said. The fences can even be customized if there is something specific an event organizer needs. 'Try to spread it out': Wisconsin State Patrol finalizing traffic plans for NFL Draft 'We do custom fabrication in our shop, so if there is a special need or anything like that, we would have the ability to design something and get that built promptly,' Arrowood said. Arrowood expects demand to pick up closer to the draft, and says earlier requests can potentially get lower prices. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
