A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.https://english.elpais.com/education/2026-06-28/ai-fraud-at-brown-university-academic-integrity-is-at-risk.html
>>109232617based professor
>>109232617how do you even use AI in exam ? and kek at that student 22
>>109232617>A Brown professorracists btfo
>>109232617Only S22 learned something
>>109232634>S22respect though, didn't cheat
> This year, the economist decided that both the midterm and the final exams for his course would be of the take-homeLmao what a huge useless retard> When I found out, I couldn’t believe it. I’ve been living in the U.S. for a long time, and I still cannot understand how this country still upholds the right to bear arms. There are cases like this one all the time, but you carry on with your life because they don’t affect you personally. Until one does. And it hurts, it hurts a great deal.”> Serrano was affected. “I was in a really bad place mentally for a while. After what happened, it occurred to me that that semester, which was beginning a month and a bit after the shooting, exams could be take-home in order to make life a little easier for students. Many of them still feel anxiety when they are on campus because of what happened in December.”lol
>>109232617I don't have a link right now but there was an article about Finnish university teacher who complained that his students are so stupid that they are blatantly using LLMs in their essays, and thinking that no one is going to notice this. He was talking about people who are 20+ years old and not about kids...
>brownJajaja, do Timmies really?
In 1984 the idea behind newspeak was to limit the vocabulary of people and hence dumb them down and make them easier to manipulate.In the real world LLMs are doing the same thing.
>>109232617>ok kids, take-home test, you can do it at home with no one looking >everyone cheated >omg how could you!!!wtf was he expecting, you don't even need AI for that
>>109232617all my engineering exams have been in-person even before AI.
>>109232634that's the student you want to hire.
>>109232617I'll hire S22 (if he is a cool dude)
>>109232617>make midterm easy>make final way harder>grades go down because of course they do>OMG THEY'RE CHEATING MUH AI!!!11disingenuous pile of shit
>>109233193The midterm was made to be much more difficult compared to the exam.
>>109233202it clearly wasn't, what with midterm scores being significantly higher
>>109232617If anything it shows school is bullshit
>>109232617if my phone can solve the tasks on the exam, why would anybody bother learning the material?
>>109233239thats the logic, now they will hire phone, and you will starve to death
>>109232617this isn't going to work. Doing in-class assessments like this would fuck me up hard. I always got extreme anxiety over this type of shit. Normgroids are the fucking worst.
>>109233253that's cool, plenty of infrastructure that needs to be rebuilt. men will do labor, women will be office whores, everybody will be happier
>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). “It’s a very nice kind of exam, because as you’re giving students practically unlimited time to complete it, it lets you make it harder than normal, to see how far they can go.” In this case, Serrano changed some of the model assumptions they had seen in class, and asked students to demonstrate whether certain statements were true or false under the new assumptions.Uhh... allowing people to do exams on their own time next to their pc isnt a very coherent idea in the best of times.
>>109233299no you don't get it people like us (ivy league slickers flush with daddy's money) don't cheat so surroundings that are extremely conductive to cheating aren't a deal breaker
>>109233299>>109233310They're all going to get a job at their dad's business anyway or get a different job through family connections. Exams mean nothing at Ivy League schools. You could graduate with a 2.0 GPA and it's not going to matter.
>>109233330cool, then let them struggle to get 2.0 after 2 years of learning literally nothing instead of immaculate (cheated) 4.0 with zero effort
>>109233330>You could graduate with a 2.0 GPA and it's not going to matter.they dont do thatin harvard the average grad score is like 95% of the maximum
>>109232617>Need sheet of paper to ever have any hope of getting a job>Every year without paper means you're not making money and taking on more debt>Failing a semester means you have to take out another 5-20k loan to pay for the next oneI understand why professors hate this shit, but at the same time, I feel like this kinda stems from the fact university is retardedly expensive. Even if you do want to learn, failing is something a shitload of people legit just can't afford. I'd like to see the see a similar experiment done in like Germany or Norway or some other country where tuition is low/free to see how much that plays a factor in students cheating.
>>109233361>in harvard the average grad score is like 95% of the maximumexcept in reality it's closer to 50% if they can't cheat, as you can see from this thread
>>109233368There's less cheating because there's less take-home-and-pinky-promise-not-to-cheat exams.Any exam where not cheating is some silly honor system is rife with cheating. It was in the past, too, but you still had to have at least some knowledge to do well because no amount of cheating will help you with linear algebra when all you know is high school math. Now that you can write plausibly sounding and possibly correct answers by simply copying chatgpt output the situation is significantly worse.
people using technology to be lazy.... wow.... WOWWW.... really makes u think.,,,...
>>109232617They don't learn because of genuine interest, but because they need the piece of paper to get hired, at which point many of them will barely ever use what they have learned.This education model is flawed.And I am glad capitalism is destroying it - if you sabotage your students scores in any way, people will stop applying to your school and you will go bankrupt.In the end it will be effortless and learning will fall back into the hands of the students, with the information being freely available on the internet.All things in balance, as they should be.
>>109232617Students 57 and 58 are completely careless lmao
>>109233414Exactly. Pulling random numbers out of my ass, but if 10% of the population is interested in intellectual matters, 10% in manual labor like carpentry, 10% in farming and working with animals... Forcing everyone to go through the intellectual study path just to get a degree so they would do the thing they find themselves most comfortable in is fucking retarded.Just from that chart, you can tell that about 5-10% of the class is interested in actually learning. The others just want to ace the exam so that they could get a nice mark with their degree.
>>10923263422 is probably the actually smartest person in the entire room
>>109232617>the guys who got 100 with AI legit just copy/pasted the exam without even bothering to make a mistake to make it look honest.>S54 probably has no idea wtf is even getting taught in that class.>>109233131That's the fun part, he's the only one who wouldn't get hired because clearly he's trying his best while staying honest, while everyone else is lying.
>>109233570and behaviors of that nature are why the world has been getting shittier and shittier5,000 years of recorded history proves that the species hasn't changed at all
>>109233213>t. S59
>>109233414Colleges have been churning out idiots who bought worthless pieces of paper for decades at this point. And buisnesses have been turning down college grads left and right in favor of H1B slaves/nep hires for years now.If you think a school infamous for letting in AI taught retards will be seen as viable to anyone in the future you're fucking retarded.Millions of jeets are being fired and shipped back to india after that college scam that's recently been excposed. And while certain companies won't care businesses with forward and american dependent clientele will put up a stink about it and their entire business will be on the line. I dont' think anyone wants someone who works on critical data or in the medical field that graduated from a school known for having AI-crippled retards or fakes waving around photcopied fake degrees.
been there, done thatwhen students got me pissed up by using llm to complete simple assignments, I've made 2/3 of them repeat whole yearfuck around find out
>>109232617He should take S22 and possibly S31 under his wing and tutor them personally. They aren't going to contribute anything to their field but at least they take it seriously.
>>109233256You mean a normal fucking exam you giant autist?
>>109233719nigger where do you think you are?
>>109232807This. We have to roll back education methods. We dont even have to go back to paper. But use non-garbage software. There is so much potential in having all your textbooks on a tablet. The problem is the education programs using tablets and AI are grifters.
>>109233719bagged that freak
>>109233813you can thank IP law for that one.
>>109232617>last 3Holy good morning sir
>>109232645>brown professoropinion dismissed
>>109233610he doesn't give a shit about s22 and s31, he just wanted to have his reddit gotcha moment with the class so he could bitch at them for an hour about how they're not taking their "academic career" seriously o algo
>>109233719>>109233819kill yourself and leave forever.
>>109232634that's me
>>109232617Only the unserious programs that women take had those home exams at my uni in my cunt. We always made fun of them. We always had written exams with pensioners as guards walking around watching for cheaters. We also never had those multiple choice exams you seem to have in america, how the fuck do you even learn anything from those? That's like middle school level.
>>109232671he shouldve failed all of them then
>>109232617>S22
>>109233813We've proven that education software has failed miserably across the board. And the less said about "common core math" the better. Hopping kids up on baby meth and putting them on a tablet or laptop has failed miserably to absolutely no one on earth's surprise. I hope they remember that they physical act of writing and interaction with real world items is also part of learning and understanding concepts.
>>109232807This, lol. Home exams are simply asking for it.
>>109232617This happened before AI. I was a college freshman online in 2020 and got As in everything from ctrl f'ing through the textbook and notes.
>>109232617>BREAKING NEWS STUDENTS CHEAT ON TESTS IF YOU LET THEM! THE WORLD HAS ENDED! ASSUME THE VICTORY POSITION!
>>109235201good morning saar.
What the fuck is a take-home examWho the fuck ever thought that would be a good idea
>>109235432>indian sees flowers>can't help himselfMany such cases.
s22 is literally me, never cheated in my life but I'm retarded which is a serious impediment all things considered but I genuinely want to learn and understand things even if they are "useless" according to random peopleeveryone I know cheated on exams when given the slightest opportunity (CS, all exams I had were are in-person) and they are ahead of me in their studies (I have zero debt and the tuition is extremely small in the EU), ultimately the first dude that gets the job wins so doing whatever you possibly can to get ahead of the game makes total sense, professors are paid to do their job (which is really just a bonus to research, which is their actual job) while studens get the piece of paper, win-win and with the rise of AI slop we can drop every pretense that people were there following their passion or some shit so nothing will ever change and at least we can be honest about it