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Emory Awards, Then Suspends Students Behind Study-Aide App

by lalaland1125 on 5/22/24, 5:03 AM with 31 comments

  • by chx on 5/22/24, 8:48 AM

    This is somewhat outdated. Friday the judge ruled the suit can not continue anonymously. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.32...

    > The Court does not intend for this determination to suggest that all information in this case will or should necessarily be made public. Indeed, there are other ways to protect specific information in litigation. See, e.g., Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c) (allowing for protective orders for “protect[ing] a party or person from annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense” upon a showing of “good cause”). The fact that these other means exist and are—in the Court’s view—better suited to address Plaintiff’s instant concerns also indicates that Plaintiff proceeding anonymously is not required to achieve the protection he seeks. Thus, the Court makes clear that while it will not allow Plaintiff to proceed anonymously

    And then indeed he refilled and so his name is now known https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24676044-16

    Reading the lawsuit it seems another student, who apparently coded the thing connected Canvas to Eightball and that's what this whole thing is about. The lawsuit alleges Plaintiff had no idea this happened.

  • by noitpmeder on 5/22/24, 8:01 AM

    It feels like there are more specific accusations of misconduct against the student/app that are missing from the article...

    The university claimed it violated their ethics policies, but for what reason? Further the article states there is no evidence directly linking the app to cheating?

    It's a bit strange the student in question submitted letters of apologies... For what was he apologizing for? Feels like there are some details missing.

  • by calciphus on 5/22/24, 7:00 AM

    So the business school awarded money to develop a morally ambiguous (but likely profitable) "study aide" app, and the school ethics board said that creating and using it violated their cheating policies.

    Sounds like the most realistic lesson that business school could have taught?

  • by ken47 on 5/22/24, 12:07 PM

    Tangential but, why shouldn't universities be afraid? The value of higher education for many subjects is existentially threatened by AI. In 10-20 years, it's not unrealistic that the only justifiable subset of subjects will be those whose practitioners cannot be replaced by AI.