Western University reviews $72 AI tutor after student complaints over cost and privacy
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-11-13
Per CTV News, Western University's Ivey Business School is reviewing an AI tutor used in one course. Student Daniel Wang says the class textbook was replaced this fall by a chatbot called Ask GMM, with students charged $72 on top of a $750 course materials fee, and required to create accounts on a separate website — raising privacy and data-handling concerns.
All Day TA founder Afinetheorem seized on the case to criticize universities' "in-house or Copilot slop" classroom AI with poor security, accessibility and quality, arguing such tools ruin AI's reputation, while plugging his own few-dollars-per-student alternative.
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