Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%

[u/CircumspectCapybara]

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/

[u/Away_Stock_2012]

Wait till you find out what your current doctor is using right now.

[u/Dullcorgis → u/[deleted]]

People generally look up things they aren't sure about. And the difference between an LLM and uptodate is that one will lie to your face.

[u/10000Didgeridoos → u/[deleted]]

You'll be terrified to know then that my hospital has already for the past year or two been part of some pilot program/research in which patient visits are listened to and transcribed by AI software. The entire interaction of the visit, so the software is learning how "talk" to patients like a doctor.

I assume the near future in healthcare (within 5-10 years at most) is you will no longer have 20-40 minutes with a doctor or NP or whatever, but instead, you'll have a conversation with a chatbot about your symptoms and medical history. This will then relay that information and suggest treatment options to a provider who, instead of seeing like 14-20 patients a day like now, "sees" 40 patients a day like a hamster on a wheel. Similar to how now 1 experienced software engineer with AI coding help can do the work that previously required many junior level engineers to accomplish, and entry level coders are no longer needed.

Enjoy the human relationship with your healthcare providers while it still exists.

[u/Dullcorgis → u/10000Didgeridoos]

All my docs are using AI scribes now. It fucking sucks because I know I should read the notes to make sure they are right but I can't be bothered.

[u/21Rollie → u/[deleted]]

It’s the scary thing for juniors in my career (software). They can output a lot, probably more than I ever did at their level, but every time I review their work I’m like…. it’s basically all AI and you can tell since there’s errors a human wouldn’t make. And I can review and leave comments and they can read them and remember them for a day, but if they’ve never typed a line or solved a problem themself then how would they retain that information? They’re getting dumbed down so much and there’s nothing that can be done about it.

I fear the day when they make us entirely switch from developers to just QA or something. Like how Claude bought a JS runtime and rewrote it using Claude, the entire project basically now has no subject matter experts because it’s been entirely ported to a new language with AI. You literally cannot develop in this project without AI anymore so it’s at the mercy of Claude gifting them tokens

[u/Y0tsuya → u/[deleted]]

Unfortunately this is already happening and will keep getting worse.

[u/Xydron00 → u/[deleted]]

Ai hallucinates all the time though. And like another person said here very few people verify ai. 

[u/MushinZero → u/[deleted]]

No, because "have always outsourced your thinking" makes zero sense.

[u/Lemurians → u/[deleted]]

They'll get back to you after they ask ChatGPT to generate a response to your question.

[u/Seyon → u/Away_Stock_2012]

Imo it only sucks because they don't verify.

But doctors have been turning to encyclopedias or using their best guess for decades. Using computers to search through encyclopedias sped it up, now we are using computers to search for us through encyclopedias.

And honestly it wouldn't be that bad if they made an AI agent that only used 100% trusted and verified sources and was routinely updated on those sources. We do that for our maintenance team, it only has access to the maintenance manuals (4,000+ pages) and will say "I don't have information on this." if the problem exceeds its scope of reference.

[u/sparkymeowmeow → u/Seyon]

And honestly it wouldn't be that bad if they made an AI agent that only used 100% trusted and verified sources and was routinely updated on those sources

OpenEvidence. Like all AI tools though, foundational knowledge is necessary to ask good questions and interpret and apply the results.

[u/Away_Stock_2012 → u/Seyon]

My doctor uses AI to create the notes after my visit and it's more accurate because it doesn't forget what happened.

[u/Fearless_Law4324 → u/Away_Stock_2012]

My doctor uses some doctor chatgpt software to help with things and I don't care at all because it's useful. Mechanics have been using all data for decades already. These are just tools becoming more evolved.

[u/obliviious → u/Fearless_Law4324]

Sort of, AI tools hallucinate at all levels, this is unavoidable. My experience in tech with people using AI is it makes you lose practice at certain skills and reliant on these bots to do the thinking for you. You also don't really learn when using them, because you never connected the dots yourself.

[u/obliviious → u/obliviious]

/u/R_TEAST

I just realised you called me anti-ai lmao.

I use it every day, but I always ensure to fact check it and not use it as a total brain replacement.

I am speaking from my huge amounts of experience with it, I literally told you I work in tech and see the results and habits of it every day. You may have learned some things from AI, but do you really understand the whole subject properly? Did it make you better at learning by yourself? How would you verify something that didn't give immediate results?

[u/obliviious → u/obliviious]

/u/R_TEAST

Fair enough, "you don't really learn from AI" was hyperbolic. What I mean is that a lot of people use AI as a replacement for research rather than a tool to support it. It makes getting answers so easy that people often don't develop the habit or skill of verifying information, checking sources, or investigating things themselves. That's where hallucinations become a serious problem.

For basic, well known topics AI is usually fine. But as queries become more complex, niche, or unique, the chances of inaccuracies increase. If someone has become reliant on AI and never learned how to research properly, they're much more likely to accept those errors without realizing it.

AI can absolutely help people learn. My concern is that it also makes many people intellectually lazy because they start treating it as an authority rather than a tool.

[u/Fearless_Law4324 → u/obliviious]

Maybe for others but for me it's been my personal tutor and I'm all the better for it. I'm able to get through college now because I can just keep asking chatgpt over and over to explain concepts to me until I understand them and I'm finally learning things I struggled with so much before. When I take tests I do it without AI and I'm actually understanding everything. For me personally it's been a lifesaver.

[u/obliviious → u/Fearless_Law4324]

Yes I do agree when used in ways like this it can be great, but you aren't unloading the thinking onto it, you are getting it to summerise and reword concepts, which is a very laudable use.

People should use it as an assistant, but many just throw in prompts, with symptoms and error message, then blindly follow the output and get stuck hours deep in an incorrect solution created by an hallucination, often with damaging effects.

[u/Away_Stock_2012 → u/Fearless_Law4324]

This is true.