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Seems like an application of Goodhart's law; measuring worth by degree or grades stopped measuring learning or ability. This was a lot harder to cheat before A
by avaer 3mo ago
Seems like an application of Goodhart's law; measuring worth by degree or grades stopped measuring learning or ability.
This was a lot harder to cheat before AI, but now the floodgates are open and grades and degrees earned post-AI are showing that they mean little.
Cheating on college tests should be a jailable criminal offense (similar to computer fraud) so that there is dignity in the degree again. Considering the money involved, I don't see why not.
But this probably won't happen, because many rich people are very happy to buy their degrees. See also [1]
https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/09/the-real-reason-students-disabled/ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/09/the-real-reason-student...
- croes 3mo ago> measuring worth by degree or grades stopped measuring learning or ability. It still does if the test is in person
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- nkrisc 3mo agoYou don’t even need to go that far. If they just expelled cheaters instead of trying to sweep it under the rug and ignore it that would go a long way.
- cliglot 3mo ago> If they just expelled cheaters instead of trying to sweep it under the rug and ignore it that would go a long way. You can’t treat paying customers like that. They’ll just go somewhere that will let them cheat!
- tayo42 3mo ago>so that there is dignity in the degree again. How far back do you need to go to get to a time when degrees mattered?
- roshin 3mo agoIdeas like cheating on a college test should be jailable is why the US leads in number of jailed people
- thrance 3mo agoIn France there's this law that cheating on any official exam gets you a 5 year ban on any other official exams. That includes finals, but also the exam to get the driver's license, among others.
- lubujackson 3mo agoThis won't happen for the same reason very few professors stand up to this shit and why everyone gets straight A's at Harvard now - Goodhart's Law again. The money involved means getting accepted into the school is the whole task, grades are irrelevant and learning is opt-in at best. Stamp the kids, extract the money, funnel it up to the administration.