“In the process of addressing this matter, we discovered that contrary to what Iddo Drori had conveyed to us and to the students collecting data for the project, Iddo did not have permission from all the instructors to collect the assignment and exam questions that made up the dataset that was the subject of the paper.”
The paper went on arXiv on June 15 without the consent of many of its co-authors. Some instructors learned their exams were in the dataset from social media. Three MIT faculty now want it withdrawn and say the students aren’t to blame. The statement ends on the only line anyone needed: “And no, GPT-4 cannot get an MIT degree.”