Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested
Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested
Elaborate scheme involved hidden camera and an earpiece to hear answers.
Are we going to completely ignore the absolute insanity of arresting someone for cheating on an exam.
Turkish middle school, high school, and university exams are very serious.
Basically everyone takes the same set of long exams (with a few additions you can add to your standard exam sets, for specialized schools) and when the results come out, you are compared to all other students in the nation.
Like, think global leaderboards.
The best universities will outright reject you if your ranking isn't high enough.
It's very intense and cut-throat; so much so that - when I was a young'un growing up in Turkey - I just opted to try my hand at the SATs instead. Ended up going to school abroad.
The SATs were so easy, compared to the exam prep we did in our Turkish classes, it almost felt like a joke. Though, college tuition costs definitely made sure I wasn't the one with the last laugh.
Honestly this just makes me think that schools and universities should be shuffling their staff and teachers to keep one or the other school from becoming "the good one" that becomes a magnet for nepo babies and tomorrow's burnout cases.
That level of direct competition is just gonna lead to people who are NOT able to work cooperatively or really trust anyone.
Plus breaking up the nepo clubs is important for keeping the social ladder at a reasonable angle to climb, college should be everyone's chance to make important connections, not just for the Ivy League alums' kids while everyone else gets told it's about getting the piece of paper and having lots of free pizza while you're doing it.
it is a nation wide examination that is why
we are not going to ignore lunatic who thinks cheating is normal. he is perpetrating fraud worth thousands of dollars; first in tuition, then in future earnings.
would you like to be operated on by a surgeon who passed the school thanks to ai? would you like to live on a 20th floor of a building designed by such structural engineer?
Coming up with a solution way more complicated than "studying". Brilliant!
I mean, there are things that you are just more interested in than others.
Tinkering with electronics and coding some kind of "complicated" method of cheating for some people would be way easier than studying, especially if the cheating is through something that already is your hobby.
I can work on my motorcycle and fix various things for hours and not mind a thing, but if you ask me to study a chapter from my production management textbook, I'm going to complain all the way
I definitely have not been ignoring my project and product management LinkedIn Learning courses in favor of Tinkering with mechanical keyboards. Definitely not.
We used to make super realistic looking Coke labels and put all the formulas in tiny print where the ingredients would normally be. Definitely took a lot of work, but it beat studying!
But why AI? Every time i ask deepAI (the one without login) about something you can't google, it confidently proposes me 3 wrong and one partially right solution. I correct it then and it apologises and proposes me 2 additional wrong solutions.
Edit: ah, for camera deciphering.
One of the top tier models would probably do well on a standardized test like that. You don't get them for free, though.
You can try some different chat models free at DDG. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo&ia=chat
Video of it working:
I'm more interested to know how they got caught. It sounds like they weren't confident enough to keep their cool.
Wild. Yeah, he was probably squirming more that normal, or the teacher heard the AI voice.
I wonder if the camera needed to be triggered to take the photo. So the student would be leaning over the exam unnaturally, and pressing a button somewhere to capture the photo.
Pretty clever contraption though.
Is there a link to the video that doesn't give the daily mail a click?
As soon as I read about the shoe cell modem, I thought Eudaemons. It’s rad Ars called that out too!
Largely a myth though, since it was never used beyond practice. People tell stories about it being used in casinos and the tale has become larger than life
I think people conflate it with the MIT blackjack team
It was used for about $10K US (a little over $48K today) worth of takings before they stopped because one of their wearable computers was burning the wearer.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Saturday, Turkish police arrested and detained a university student who is accused of developing an elaborate scheme to use AI and hidden devices to help him cheat on an exam, reports Reuters and The Daily Mail.
According to police reports, the student used a camera disguised as a shirt button, connected to AI software via a "router" (possibly a mistranslation of a cellular modem) hidden in the sole of their shoe.
The system worked by scanning the exam questions using the button camera, which then relayed the information to an unnamed AI model.
The police discovered a mobile phone that could allegedly relay spoken sounds to the other person, allowing for two-way communication.
The Eudaemons were a group of physics graduate students from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who developed a wearable computer device designed to predict the outcome of roulette spins in casinos.
While the Eudaemons' plan didn't involve a university exam, it shows that the urge to call upon remote computational powers greater than oneself is apparently timeless.
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