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125 Is Everyone Using AI to Cheat Their Way Through College?

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/10/2025 17:14 EDT

Is Everyone Using AI to Cheat Their Way Through College?

Chungin Lee used ChatGPT to help write the essay that got him into Columbia University — and then "proceeded to use generative artificial intelligence to cheat on nearly every assignment," reports New York magazine's blog Intelligencer:

As a computer-science major, he depended on AI for his introductory programming classes: "I'd just dump the prompt into ChatGPT and hand in whatever it spat out." By his rough math, AI wrote 80 percent of every essay he turned in. "At the end, I'd put on the finishing touch

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