• Members of the Vanderbilt staff apologized on Friday for using ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) generator, to send an email to students calling for the community to come together following the shooting at Michigan State University.
• The email was sent on Thursday by the Peabody Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) at the university’s Peabody College and included a note at the bottom that indicated the email had been written using ChatGPT, Vanderbilt’s official student newspaper, The Vanderbilt Hustler, first reported on Friday.
• The note at the bottom of the original email read, “Paraphrase from OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI language model, personal communication, February 15, 2023.”

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