Two 'lazy' Vanderbilt University deans are suspended after they used ChatGPT to write 297-word email to students about deadly mass shooting at Michigan State
February 21, 2023
On February 16, the Peabody Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion sent students an email reminding them to 'take care of each other' after the MSU shooting. Although the email came off as kind and caring and offered students ways to help promote a caring environment with their peers, at the very bottom, it revealed it wasn't written by a human. 'Paraphrase from OpenAI's ChatGPT AI language model, personal communication, February 15, 2023,' (inset) it read. The email openly caused disgust among students causing the two deans who signed off on the email - Nicole Joseph and Hasina Mohyuddin (both right) - to temporarily step down while the school investigates.
Vanderbilt University has apologized for using artificial intelligence to write a 297-word email to students after the Michigan State University mass shooting, causing two deans to temporarily step down.
The Peabody Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion sent students an email on February 16 reminding them to 'take care of each other' after the MSU shooting.
Although the email came off as kind and offered students ways to help promote a caring environment with their peers, at the very bottom, it revealed it wasn't written by a human.
'Paraphrase from OpenAI's ChatGPT AI language model, personal communication, February 15, 2023,' it read.
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence software that is capable of producing large amounts of text by giving the generator writing suggestions, where it pulls from ten of thousands of datasets to produce written content.
The email caused disgust among students, including Laith Kayat, who is from Michigan and has a sister who attends MSU.
'There is a sick and twisted irony to making a computer write your message about community and togetherness because you can’t be bothered to reflect on it yourself,' he told the Vanderbilt Hustler, the student newspaper.
Vanderbilt senior Laith Kayat, whose sister also attends MSU, said using ChatGPT to write a sensitive note was, 'disgusting'.
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