I had seen people paying for services to write research for them.
I had seen people translate research papers from foreign languages(Like Russian for example) to English to avoid doing any work.
And even much more methods were used in college.
The reality is people can’t seem to understand how broken are education systems and how science had flows that are only now brought to light and studied.
While AI made fraud more accessible for sure and made the problems worse, it’s only a sign of how much education were broken before it.
In my eyes, the last years put a bright spotlight on degrees worth that a lot of companies had started valuing them less and most probably the value of official degrees will keep falling down as the years pass by.
Aren’t they just complaining about another form of cheating that is low-effort and low-cost. I don’t think people are complaining that there wasn’t cheating at all?
We had that Aunt Becky from Full House scandal not too long ago.
Hell man, when I was in uni we noticed all the software engineers did better than the computer science students. Well, guess what the software engineering students had? previous exams and stuff …
I definitely think that University/College or what-have-you is broken and has a bigger problem for sure though.
least for the US, it’s a direct consequence of the federal student aid process. a pipeline literally written by investment bankers to milk the american public for every $ they could instead of taxing rich people for the public good.
schools naturally want as much of this $ as they can as well so they lower standarda and just let anyone through, it’s not their problem if someone doesn’t learn anything
Canada isn’t as bad as the US in that regard but we have echoes of that. Universities didn’t know how to deal with more students and just crammed us in, raised the price, and didn’t care if we learned anything.