ChatGPT’s use in school email after shooting angers students


People including alumni and current students of Michigan State University gather for a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of a shooting at the university. The email from Vanderbilt was sent in response to a shooting earlier this week, when a gunman killed three people and injured five others at Michigan State University’s campus in East Lansing on Feb 13 night. — AFP

Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College is facing growing anger after administrators used ChatGPT to write a message about the importance of community following a deadly campus shooting in Michigan.

The Nashville, Tennessee-based school’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion said in a Feb 16 email that “creating a safe and inclusive environment is an ongoing process that requires ongoing effort and commitment”. A line at the bottom of the five-paragraph email said it had been paraphrased using ChatGPT, an AI text generator.

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