In their report on artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education published in June, researchers Frédéric Pascal and François Taddei estimate that 49% of instructors use AI either daily or weekly to prepare their classes.

While many professors have been alarmed by students' use of AI tools since 2023, the opposite scenario has also sparked controversy, as shown by the story of Ella Stapleton in the United States. In February, Stapleton, a final-year management student at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, realized that one of her professors was using ChatGPT – rather clumsily – to develop his course. She requested a partial refund of her tuition fees (about $8,000). "He's telling us not to use it, and then he's using it himself," she explained to the New York Times, which broke the story.

The young woman ultimately did not recover her tuition fees, but her action brought attention to the issue of student acceptance when their professors use AI. Students have not hesitated to voice their complaints on social media, especially when they attend institutions or classes that ban the use of ChatGPT.

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