China shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams

https://www.theverge.com/news/682737/china-shuts-down-ai-chatbots-exam-season

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  1. Chinese AI companies have temporarily paused some of their chatbot features to prevent students from using them to cheat during nationwide college exams, Bloomberg reports. Popular AI apps, including Alibaba’s Qwen and ByteDance’s Doubao, have stopped picture recognition features from responding to questions about test papers, while Tencent’s Yuanbao, Moonshot’s Kimi have suspended photo-recognition services entirely during exam hours.

    The increasing availability of chatbots has made it easier than ever for students around the world to cheat their way through education. Schools in the US are trying to address the issue by reintroducing paper tests, with the Wall Street Journal reporting in May that sales of blue books have boomed in universities across the country over the last two years.

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  3. Wouldn’t they just use a VPN and ChatGPT?
    If I wanted to cheat. I would find a way.

    Like if I wanted to find onlyfans models videos and images for free. I would just go to yandex and type in their username.

    If there’s a will. There’s a way.

  4. Why not just… you know, not allowing them to take their phones out during exams?

  5. Or make the exam halls a Faraday cage?

    Quite suspicious if someone were to bring an ethernet cable to the exam hall.

  6. People its not just about phones. Remember, you can wear digital contact lenses and have morse code transmitted to a vibrating butt plug. Where theres a will theres a way

  7. Today’s technology already includes little glasses like fighter jet HUD with datalink.

  8. See this is the type of power that governments in the West should have over the regulation of AI tools, whether you agree with what China is regulating is correct or not. While in the West, governments lack the teeth, willpower, or speed to regulate the likes of OpenAI.

  9. How can people smart enough to go to college not understand that they are paying to learn something. They are only cheating themselves by not honestly doing the work to learn. Everyone else at the university still gets paid but the cheater doesn’t get what he paid for.

    I hope Millennials are prepared to work until they are 80 because younger generations are going to have advanced degrees and no actual ability to think critically, solve problems, or create anything.

  10. When I was in University years ago, before the rise of *AI Chatbots,* I sat as the student member on a Academic Dishonesty committee. While the specific matters were confidential, what I learned is that some students spend so much time attempting to cheat, I really wonder if they actually spent that time *studying* for the test, they would actually do quite well. Also, most of the students were caught for stupid reasons — meaning that the real professionals were not. Honestly, I think many academic insitutions may move toward closed book written essay type exams *or* oral exams to gauge whether the student actually learned the material. I don’t see AI as the antihesis of learning but the way we examine it will have to change.

  12. Cheating is easy in any exam.

    First step, get an outline of what is included in the test.

    Second, acquire a collection of data relevant to what is included.

    Third, write all the answers down, or key points to make the answers apparent when the time comes.

    Now the trick….. hide the answers on yourself, where you can access them, without the testers knowledge.

    There are many ways to do this, papers, smart glasses, Morse code based buttplugs…… but there is new tech that in nearly undetectable, and even if caught, more likely to be ignored.

    Store the data in your mind. You can actually write the needed information right inside you head.
    Lmao they will never catch you.

    Good luck

  13. That’s the way to do it. If government wants its fingers involved they better set guardrails

  14. I love this idea. It won’t work, because there is offline AI too. But I really appreciate the effort.

    This is like when you used to go to conferences and they would shut down the Wifi for certain things. That only worked until celliular data became universal.

  15. Haven’t even done casting yet and it’s almost summer

    I expect it to be pushed back more

  16. You can run an offline AI on a Raspberry Pi these days so shutting off AI at the company will only work for so long. A model trained on a physics entrance exam might be tiny and not need a lot of power. Imagine somebody determined fitting one inside a standard calculator shell that requires a number combo to activate so brief inspections would just show normal calc use.

  17. For closed-book math and physics tests in the early 2000s, I remember feeling like a brilliant hacker uploading formulas and notes onto my TI calculator through the USB port. It’s a whole ‘nother world nowadays with AI tools.

  18. My first thoughts starting reading the sentence was it was shut down because it became sentient.

  19. Not going to stop people from running pretty good AI tools on a home desktop or cloud instance instead. Just make the entire examination building a wifi and cellular blocked zone already.

  20. I remember watching that right here right now video about things happening in the world and China had 20 years ago more honor students than we had students. They deserve to overtake us their diligence and for sightedness will serve them for the next hundred years at least.

  21. What if the students who still manage to cheat get called up by the army or secret agent type shi cuz they’re smarter than the book smart type shi type shi

  22. What do you even call a widespread shutdown of AI services? Brainout?

  23. We may not like centralized command infrastructure like China, but damn if they don’t know how to shut shit down when needed.

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