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An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago) (1 children)

Statistics is a math developed to prove cheating. Moe outliers = more cheaters.

My institution is ending digital exams. We had a certain level of trust with students, that's officially over.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 minutes ago

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.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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...

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca -1 points 14 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 minutes ago

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.

[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I feel we need double blind test taking like this.

Have you take an exam and the purpose is to gauge your trust. Make the room and setup easy to cheat in but secretly entrap the ones who do cheat.

We really need the filter out the people in society who will compromise rules when they think they can get away with it.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago

Yes, but then none of the ~~parasites~~ rich kids would pass, so we can't have that. Don't you know this is their world?

/s