Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University: 'Academic integrity is at risk'

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45. Generative AI tools are unethical because they're illegally trained on stolen intellectual property.

They dumb users down, as studies have shown. They don't increase knowledge or enhance creativity - they offer a simulation of both. A pretense. A pretense filled with errors - hallucinations - unless the AI results are checked carefully and corrected.

One way teachers have been able to make it obvious that students are cheating with AI is to question them on the subject they supposedly learned about. The cheaters using AI are still ignorant, and can't remember much of what the AI generated for them.