Massive Cheating Using AI Uncovered at Brown University

Sunday, July 05, 2026

The renowned Brown University economist Roberto Serrano has overwhelming evidence' that a significant number of his students used AI to cheat on a take-home exam. He thinks the time has come for an in-depth debate on the use of AI technology to protect higher education: "Academic integrity is at risk."

AI is the new Doomsday Machine

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"Ivy League graduates often secure high-paying roles in fields like finance, consulting, and technology, where salaries can exceed six figures. Overall, Ivy League graduates tend to earn $20,000 to $50,000 more on average than their non-Ivy counterparts throughout their careers."

Must be nice being a legacy admission to Brown, Yale, Harvard, or the five other Ivy League universities.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-05 05:06 AM | Reply

All the breathtaking opportunity of being a Brown student and you won't do your own work.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-05 08:22 AM | Reply

Oh, this is just elite MAGA stuff; it's Trump philosophy and behavior.

Meaning: the appearance of achievement is every bit as good as achievement itself.

These Brown students look forward to a future of naming buildings after themselves.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-05 08:25 AM | Reply

This sort of behavior may be the reason why applicants are reporting to me that it's now harder to get into the University of Texas at Austin than it is Harvard.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-05 08:27 AM | Reply

They're cheating at UT Austin too.

#5 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-07-05 10:32 AM | Reply

The tools to catch cheaters using AI have false positive rates too high to be useful.

#6 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-07-05 10:33 AM | Reply

They're cheating at UT Austin too.

#5 | Posted by sitzkrieg at

I won't doubt that.

Nonetheless, these students are denying themselves to be the sort of men we made of ourselves, SITZKRIEG.

Weep or gloat? You decide.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-05 10:48 AM | Reply

Self made, pffft. I had a support system.

The kids were cheating before ChatGPT using Chegg, Studocu. It just didn't make the news, no AI keyword.

#8 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-07-05 11:49 AM | Reply

Self made, pffft. I had a support system.

#8 | Posted by sitzkrieg

The issue is whether you had a love of learning. Not that someone helped you.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-05 11:57 AM | Reply

Brown ain't Harvard

U.T.aint Stanford

Check yourselves.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-05 03:00 PM | Reply

Massive Cheating Using Executive Power Uncovered at White House!

Oh, wait, that's old news. Never mind.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-05 03:28 PM | Reply

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-05 03:00 PM | Reply

They're all cheating. When ChatGPT went live it caused Chegg's stock to plummet, because of the pervasive, global pivot in how to cheat.

#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-07-05 04:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

That's nice. Do you know any college professors, and how they're using AI?

#13 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-05 09:10 PM | Reply

Princeton has nice skirts.

--objectivist boomer, who learned everything useful before or after college

#14 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-05 11:57 PM | Reply

Let them "cheat."

Just dock them points for laziness and their inability to realize the point of the assignment is more than checking a box for an essay or report being written or a unit of information studied and understood, not simply memorized.

Let them use the tools available but make learning and critical thinking count for something.

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-06 12:53 AM | Reply

In the last data science showcase I judged, 38 out of 40 senior level projects were:

* copies of existing Kaggle projects
* copies of friends projects from the prior year
* generative to the point they didn't edit out the LLM's comments back to them
* and then read them out loud during the presentation because they didn't proof read it

I watched the dead of undergrads visibly deflate for 3 hours. It was sad.

#16 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-07-06 08:19 AM | Reply

#16 | Posted by sitzkrieg

So, and seriously, what do these young people think the point of their lives is?

Or do they ever go there at all?

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-06 08:38 AM | Reply

U.T.aint Stanford

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

UT is sometimes ranked as one of the fifty best universities on the planet.

I hope that's because most of us were and are more serious about honest achievement than whatever these other poor dweebs are into.

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-06 08:40 AM | Reply

So, and seriously, what do these young people think the point of their lives is?

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-06 08:38 AM | Reply | Flag:

Too existential for college students. Rhetorical stuff like this is how Charlie Kirk farmed them for views. Half won't actually use their degree and get classified as Underemployed.

#19 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-07-06 08:47 AM | Reply

So, and seriously, what do these young people think the point of their lives is?
#17 | Posted by Zed

I read a lot of rehashed dissertations turned into scholars' first published monographs.

Aside from the natural sciences, much scholarship these days, as I saw it once described, falls under the realm of PhMe.

Much knowledge is being refocused into the perspective of different interest groups.

As represented by the author.

Makes for lighter reading than 25 years ago.

#20 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-06 08:58 AM | Reply