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Parents Sue School That Gave Bad Grade to Student Who Used AI to Complete Assignment


A Massachusetts couple claims that their son's high school attempted to derail his future by giving him detention and a bad grade on an assignment he wrote using generative AI.

In what appears to be the first case of its kind, at least in Massachusetts, a couple has sued their local school district after it disciplined their son for using generative AI tools on a history project. Almost immediately after OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, schools recognized the threat that free and easily accessible generative AI tools posed to academic integrity. State departments of education have slowly been rolling out guidance for local districts, but in many parts of the country, there is no clear consensus on how students should be allowed to use generative AI.

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