jballs

I hate how accurate that is

Yeah, I was saying the cheating being AI usage is what couldn’t be proven. They mentioned a few other possibilities like the tests being leaked or people working off camera with them.

But yeah, the cheating is obvious. And the likelihood of it being done by AI is damn near certain.

The headline kind of misses the main point, which is that the students have to retake the exam because cheating was so rampant, likely due to AI usage but that can’t be proven.

Between 2021 and 2025, 3.5 percent of test takers scored 100 or more on the 120-question UNAM test. This year, 16.3 percent did so.

The story was even worse at the highest of the high end. Between 2021 and 2025, 0.9 percent of test takers scored 110 or more; this year, 5.5 percent did so.

Keep in mind this teacher is in her early 20s. Most people that age don’t really know much about how computers and files work.

We were also pretty naive then. An editor for Wired magazine attended a party with Larry Page, Google’s cofounder in 2002. He asked how Google was able to offer their services for free - and Page told him how their long term plan was to gather as much data as possible through their free services in order to build artificial intelligence.

So while we all thought a free GB of storage and searchable email was awesome in 2004, we were just blindly feeding what’s happening today with the AI craze.

There’s a video in the article that shows it. He put the prompt at the end of a bullet point, but still in the middle of the block of text. Very easy to miss if you’re selecting all.

Yeah back in my day, cheating meant getting a copy of last year’s test and memorizing the answers. At least you still learned something!

Also later in the article it mentions another professor who estimated that only 2 of their 86 students didn’t use AI to cheat.

Like, what are we even doing any more?

Maybe if Elon throws out a few more Nazi salutes, it will fix the problem. Surely that will increase sales.

I don’t know why, but I read this as “Five Guys” and thought holy shit I didn’t realize a burger company could be so broke. No wonder their prices are so high!