LSU star gymnast Olivia Dunne recently promoted Caktus Artificial Intelligence, a platform used by students to automate homework, on her TikTok account. Caktus AI markets itself as the “first ever educational artificial intelligence,” and Dunne posted the video to her 7.2 million TikTok followers, where she shows herself using the AI tool.
After Dunne’s video was posted, LSU released a statement that expressed concern over students using AI to help them with their work, though it does not specifically mention Dunne or Caktus AI.
“At LSU, our professors and students are empowered to use technology for learning and pursuing the highest standards of academic integrity,” the school said, via The Advocate. “However, using AI to produce work that a student then represents as one’s own could result in a charge of academic misconduct, as outlined in the Code of Student Conduct.”
Dunne’s large social media presence means she can successfully promote any product and likely get her followers to at least try what she is promoting.
However, using AI to write papers and stories is a relatively new phenomenon, and right now schools view that as a form of cheating. Therefore, LSU felt the need to step in when it felt students might get carried away in using AI in their studies.
