Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University

Damn that's crazy. Guess the take home test is dead now.

I never understood this behavior from undergrads though, you're paying so much for an education and then you just skip the education part? Why bother?

These articles consistently fail to acknowledge students were cheating in large numbers prior to these AI tools being available.

It was certainly not difficult to cheat at a "closed book" take home exam before.

Administration needs to eschew "technology" and demand analog solutions: hand written exams in proctored rooms, no devices out in the classroom, no take home work, etc.

When you're a student in a competitive program at a top university, graded on a curve, and you know your fellow classmates are cheating with AI, you have little choice but to do the same. Especially when jobs for new grads are harder to come by and there's more pressure to also go above and beyond with internships and side projects during your time in school. There's no way to compete without cheating.

The problem isn't AI, it's that you gave a take-home exam expected no one to cheat.

As of now chatgpt subsidies its consumer subscription-I wonder if cheating on exams will be still promiment once students are forced to pay $30 a month

Since students are notorious for being cheap

> This year, the economist decided that both the midterm and the final exams for his course would be of the take-home, closed-book type (there is a certain tradition of this at Ivy League schools).

These news articles are just tiresome at this point. Obviously folks cheated previously, obviously it's easier now, obviously the answer has been to not have take homes all along.

the professor has all the power in the classroom. If you don't want cheating, define better conditions for the exam. You allowed a take-home exam which means students are able to use any and all resources.

They're going to have change everything so use of an AI assistant doesn't matter because once they graduate they're just going to continue using it anyway.

If it's a math for finance course then some kind of model building for the midterm and being marked on the quality of the model or something. If AI becomes so good that it always chooses the best fitting model and requires no numerical optimization then they will have to change the courses to be more like UChicago where it's primarily undergrad directed research but AI assisted.