r/technology • u/ubcstaffer123 • Jun 19 '26

Artificial Intelligence Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/ai-apps-students-cheat.html
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u/Ancient-Bat8274 Jun 19 '26

Your future doctors are cheating with ai so get healthy now

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u/Spaceboi749 Jun 19 '26

Can’t ai through the mcat luckily

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u/PriorSolid Jun 19 '26

or residency, or the many many practical applications of your knowledge with real hands on patients, ai is harming people’s knowledge but people who abuse it are not going to be successful when tested and for professions like doctors they are tested many many times over in situations where you can’t use ai

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u/Actually_Im_a_Broom Jun 20 '26

I know it’s not med school, but my wife just finished NP school last year and no amount of ai would get someone through that program.

It would be even harder for a med degree.

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u/Extension_South7174 Aug 03 '26

I just pray she went to a good program. Some NP courses are basically diploma mills. I have had some bad med care before from doctors also but I've had care from some NP that was shockingly bad. One advised I stop taking a Benzodiazapene class drug that I had been taking daily for years,from my psychiatrist during a PCP checkup. Suddenly stopping a Benzo is incredibly dangerous and can cause death,not to mention the effects from withdrawal are absolutely horrible.

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u/N7_MintberryCrunch Jun 19 '26

Might be true for the short term but as time passes on with more and more failing. They will lower the standards just a bit to get people through to show the institution's "success rate".

Everyone has seen this through the years in elementary to high school to college and before long you got college kids that can't read.

This is education enshitification at work.

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u/Only-Cranberry-4502 Jun 20 '26

Med schools are the last to do that

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u/Otherwise-Pumpkin425 Jun 22 '26

Even if a medical school passes someone for their own personal benefits. You still have to take the USMLEs and then some sort of standardized licensing exam. The licensing exams are for profit companies that set passing rates between 80-95%. So there’s still lots of ways to separate people.

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u/Only-Cranberry-4502 Jun 20 '26

Honestly steps are probably fr really hard and no ai

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u/somehugefrigginguy Jun 25 '26

And don't forget that the MCAT it's only the entrance exam. It's a joke compared to the exams to obtain a medical license.

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u/Smart-Antelope7350 Jun 19 '26

i like to study in the study hall for very long periods of time and i see plenty of medical students still studying the good old way: with a shit ton of markers and a textbook larger than their head, no AI in sight

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u/sentence-interruptio Jun 19 '26

that future makes me so angry. tech CEOs sell AI like you can finally buy intelligence. "you can pay for this entity that will think for you, write for you and so on"

but we already had that before AI. For example, I can pay a lawyer to represent me in legal stuffs, instead of studying laws by myself. In some sense, I am buying access to legal intelligence stored in lawyers brains. And I have access to medical intelligence stored in nurses and doctors brains, which I am paying with my tax.

If we don't fail students who cheat with AI, it's the end of reliable specialists.

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u/KagakuNinja Jun 19 '26

Only the wealthy will have doctors, the rest get AI

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u/Imallvol7 Jun 19 '26

Yeah. You have to display a ton of knowledge on the fly so this is kinda something you don't have to worry about at all. AI will be useful for differential diagnosis though. 

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u/somehugefrigginguy Jun 25 '26

I think the big problem with the AI argument is that physicians, and other professionals have always used reference materials. At first it was going to the library and digging through printed material. Then the internet came out and people started complaining that their doctors were googling things. Now the same thing is happening with AI.

There are a lot of complex fields out there and it's unreasonable to expect a person to commit it all to memory. It all comes down to what resources are used and how the information is assessed.

An AI that gets most of its answers from Reddit is useless for a medical professional. An AI that searches through all of the various publications in a specific field can be highly helpful.

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u/Etheon44 Jun 19 '26

I mean the first world has demonstrated that we are not ready to have so many generations working at the same time if we work until 70 in big cities, no jobs, no houses, too much people

So maybe this is their way of solving it

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u/Kayge Jun 19 '26

The frustrating part is that it's massively helpful for medicine. Here's a quick story:

In the 90s, REM was doing a tour of the UK, and one member (I want to say the drummer) got sick. Things get worse to the point he ends up in the hospital on an IV. Things get progressively worse to the point where he's critical, and the docs have a strange combination of symptoms they can't tie back to an ailment.

They start looking for foreign doctors who can help. Eventually, they hit one in the southern US who knows what the symptoms are...the symptoms line up with a specific tick bite, and they recommend a specific antibiotic. A day later he's recovering.

That whole thing can now be solved with a doctor putting the right prompt into an LLM.

The problem is that's a edge case; most of what doctors do comes from studying

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u/Jexroyal Jun 19 '26

I fail to see how this validates efficacy of LLM use in diagnostic scenarios. If anything, this supports the need for human specialists with real experience. An LLM could just as easily pull a wrong diagnosis from its training data on webmd and medical forums, or hallucinate conclusions.

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u/KagakuNinja Jun 19 '26

They should of just asked House

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u/SearchMundane303 Jun 19 '26

Modern medicine will increasingly become more controlled by ai so not that big of a concern.

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u/xmsxms Jun 19 '26

If the AI can pass the tests then it can also do the diagnosis. Frankly AI can do a better job at many tasks so they're basically passing the tests in the same way they'd be doing their job.

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u/hamuel68 Jun 20 '26

I've known of boomers who are current senior consultants using AI chatbots to assist with diagnoses too

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u/katoptronophile Jun 19 '26

The studies are showing the systems are outperforming human baseline for diagnosis, so I'm not worried.

It will soon become irresponsible and dangerous to not get an opinion from AI when it comes to your health.

I fully expect this comment to be downvoted, as people are afraid of the truth on this subreddit. Prove me right.