Federal Court Ruled Against Parents in #AI Case

Will this be celebrated by those who favor parents' running schools or not? You know, those parents running to take over school boards so they can push their beliefs and narrow (hey, it’s the narrow gate, no?) beliefs on their community’s children? Or will this be hailed as a victory by MAGA voters on behalf of AI?

I am really curious to find out how this is interpreted. Another way to view this development might be as a victory of sanity regarding AI. Simply because AI is in the mix doesn’t mean all the rules go out the window (at least, not right away).

A federal court yesterday ruled against parents who sued a Massachusetts school district for punishing their son who used an artificial intelligence tool to complete an assignment. Source: School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules - Ars Technica

What I also found curious was the list of action the teacher engaged in:

History teacher Susan Petrie “testified that the revision history showed that RNH had only spent approximately 52 minutes in the document, whereas other students spent between seven and nine hours. Ms. Petrie also ran the submission through ‘Draft Back’ and ‘Chat Zero,’ two additional AI detection tools, which also indicated that AI [Grammarly] had been used to generate the document,” the order said.

Tools like TurnItIn, Draft Back, Chat Zero are mentioned as well as detection tools. I’m not sure that Draft Back is an AI detection tool, more of a Google Docs add-on. Anyways, let’s see what happens.

AI Bullet Summary

A federal court ruled that a school did not violate a student’s rights by punishing them for using AI tools inappropriately. • The case involved a high school student who used ChatGPT to complete assignments. • The student was caught when their work was flagged by Turnitin, an AI detection tool used by the school. • The court found that the school’s academic integrity policy, which prohibits “using artificial intelligence … without explicit teacher permission,” was not unconstitutionally vague. • The ruling emphasized that schools have the right to enforce academic integrity policies, even when they involve new technologies like AI.

AI detection tools mentioned in the article:

•	Turnitin