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An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
arstechnica.com/culture/2026/08/an-ai-supervised-remote-exam-went-so-badly-that-58000-students-must-retake-it/
Ars TechnicaAn AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake itTop scores increased by 5x.
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
One thing is the 58 000 that have to re-take the exam. I’m just as interested in the 2% of exam-takers that were terminated due to “unspecified conduct issues”, and how many of those were unfairly thrown out for cheating without having done anything wrong…
Replying to @thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
how many of those were unfairly thrown out for cheating without having done anything wrong…
sure, keep selling this victim trope online. Idiots are submitting papers with LLM prompts still in them.
Replying to @SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
There are also people who grew up in Ghana /Nigeria who are being accused of submitting chatbot writing because the fine tuning was done by their compatriots.
Replying to @eestileib@sh.itjust.works
I mean AI is totally fine for fine-tuning. Helpful, even. It’s a fabulous proof-reader. The issue is using it for a first or second pass, or having it make suggestions for changes.
Replying to @TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.works
I believe the point was they were treated as having used ai because ai sounds like them because it was trained by people with their accent.
Similar to the “This is not ai, I’m just autistic”.