One thing is the 58 000 that have to re-take the exam. I’m just as interested in the 2% of exam-takers that were terminated due to “unspecified conduct issues”, and how many of those were unfairly thrown out for cheating without having done anything wrong…
how many of those were unfairly thrown out for cheating without having done anything wrong…
sure, keep selling this victim trope online. Idiots are submitting papers with LLM prompts still in them.
There are also people who grew up in Ghana /Nigeria who are being accused of submitting chatbot writing because the fine tuning was done by their compatriots.
I mean AI is totally fine for fine-tuning. Helpful, even. It’s a fabulous proof-reader. The issue is using it for a first or second pass, or having it make suggestions for changes.
The headline kind of misses the main point, which is that the students have to retake the exam because cheating was so rampant, likely due to AI usage but that can’t be proven.
Between 2021 and 2025, 3.5 percent of test takers scored 100 or more on the 120-question UNAM test. This year, 16.3 percent did so.
The story was even worse at the highest of the high end. Between 2021 and 2025, 0.9 percent of test takers scored 110 or more; this year, 5.5 percent did so.
Statistics is a math developed to prove cheating. Moe outliers = more cheaters.
My institution is ending digital exams. We had a certain level of trust with students, that’s officially over.
Should probably phase out home essays, as well.
