‘It’s free money’: Evergreen student employees use AI to write training dialogues

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026/05/klee-miller-evergreen-ai-writing

Publish Date: 2026-05-14 05:16:00

Three current and two former Evergreen student employees who have worked in writing training dialogues have been given pseudonyms so they may speak candidly about their experiences. Quinn, Charlie, Olivia and Rebecca said they used AI to write dialogues as project assistants. Georgia, who was a content reviewer for Evergreen, said she did not use generative AI in her work. Quinn, Charlie and Olivia are still employed by Evergreen; Rebecca and Georgia said they voluntarily left the project. Numerous Evergreen student employees declined to comment.

Student employees at the College’s mental health project Evergreen AI have been using artificial intelligence to generate dialogues used to train the project’s chatbot, against Evergreen’s stated policy. The Dartmouth spoke with several students who said they have submitted AI-generated or -assisted content to Evergreen — which is “grounded in vetted content created by and for students,” according to its website — without detection or consequence.

Once released to campus, Evergreen, the world’s first college-specific wellness artificial intelligence, will offer wellness check-ins, organizational tools and Dartmouth-specific social advice to students through a chatbot interface. Evergreen’s functionality will scale as the user provides more personal information, such as academic assignments, health data and location, according to past coverage from The Dartmouth. As of Nov. 5, 2025, the College had raised $5 million for the project from parents and alumni out of its goal of $16.5 million. Fundraising is still ongoing.

Training dialogues are fictitious chat conversations of 100 or more messages between a hypothetical Dartmouth student and the Evergreen chatbot, intended to be written entirely by a student employee. The dialogues will be used to teach the chatbot how to “talk like a Dartmouth student and be…

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