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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 09/20/2025 21:34 EDT

Google Temporarily Pauses AI-Powered 'Homework Helper' Button in Chrome Over Cheating Concerns

An anonymous reader shared this article from the Washington Post:


A student taking an online quiz sees a button appear in their Chrome browser: "homework help." Soon, Google's artificial intelligence has read the question on-screen and suggests "choice B" as the answer. The temptation to cheat was suddenly just two clicks away Sept. 2, when Google quietly added a "homework help" button to Chrome, the world's most popular web browser. The button has been appearing automatically on the kinds of course websi

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