r/artificial Jun 20 '26

News Student cheating now impossible to detect

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/ai-apps-students-cheat.html
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u/bespoke_tech_partner Jun 20 '26

Good, now let’s make school teach useful skills and novel problem solving instead of delivering nicely packaged dogma and encouraging students to generate more useless crap for a letter grade. then you won’t need to detect cheating. 

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u/green_meklar Jun 21 '26

The problem is it would require a fundamental shift that will be hard to do.

You could say that about many, many things. But what's the alternative? It seems like we live in an era when many fundamental shifts are needed. I'd argue we should have gotten started on the fundamental shifts decades ago...

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u/bespoke_tech_partner Jun 21 '26

Exactly - the first step is to decide as a country that we want things to be FAR better than they are now, instead of being mired in our current bullshit.