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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.

An old and powerful force has entered the fraught debate over generative AI in schools: litigious parents angry that their child may not be accepted into a prestigious university.

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. Dale and Jennifer Harris allege that the Hingham High School student handbook did not explicitly prohibit the use of AI to complete assignments and that the punishment visited upon their son for using an AI tool—he received Saturday detention and a grade of 65 out of 100 on the assignment—has harmed his chances of getting into Stanford University and other elite schools.

Yeah, I'm 100% with the school on this one.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

God, I wish my parents sued my school over being misdiagnosed.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

America and suing for random bullshit, name a more iconic duo

[–] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

hahaha enjoy yours and the schools legal bills, parents.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I would be so pissed if I lived / paid taxes in that school's district and my tax dollars had to pay those legal bills. Would consider suing those parents myself.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

OK, the parents are suing. And the district already filed a motion to dismiss.

Please understand, the world isn't a nuts as the headlines tell us. Judges toss frivolous lawsuits all day long. We only hear about the nut cases because they're nut cases. Money says this case is never heard.

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[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What if he only used it as an aid in research for the assignment?

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago

Did he cite the LLM properly?

[–] Pyflixia@kbin.melroy.org 25 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Dude, the fact that the student has to use AI tools to get by, does not mean he's going to be a success story in life. It just means he's going to find shortcuts and exploits to make things easier over everyone else that had to do things the natural way. This is no different than someone using calculators in math tests where it's not allowed. This is no different than someone simply peeking over another's work and copying down. Using AI generative tools to gain an advantage is in the same ballpark.

So these entitled parents and that entitled student can go get fucked. I hope these universities see this and recognize that this student is a borderline cheater and hopefully deny him anyways if this gets overturned.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 17 points 2 days ago

I'd say more than borderline cheater but yeah.

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These fucking dickbrain parents. What do they think, they win the lawsuit and Stanford doesn’t realize the kid took a shortcut?

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (10 children)

If I used a calculator on a maths test I should only be penalised if the rules stated no calculators.

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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Great job parents, now your kid will learn nothing from this teachable moment.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 18 points 2 days ago

Kid learns nothing by cheating on the assignment.

Well, at least the bad grade and detention will be a teachable moment.

Parents: Hold my daytime wine.

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