You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of the wilier ones are putting in the hard work to make sure their LLM-generated answers avoid detection from their nosy pedagogues.
New York Magazine interviewed some of these clever cheats in a recent piece, who are well aware that by by now, many professors are wise to students’ tricks and are changing the assignments they give and deploying increasingly powerful tech to weed out any illicit AI assistance.
One student named Jared attending New York University took his introductory calculus class’s use of WebAssign, a platform that’s designed to make cheating “far more difficult,” as a challenge. He and his friend used an AI coding tool to build a bot that does all their homework for them, but at the sluggish pace of a struggling student.
“The bot moves slowly, leaving a professor checking time stamps none the wiser,” according to the piece. Jared, in his munificence, gave the tool to his friends, and now he’s not even sure how many classmates have his automatic cheating machine tech in their hands.
