[willis936]

Back in your day education was not sold as a financial transaction to a prosperous life. The honor system is idyllic and requires idyllic circumstances: people who pursue education for no reason other than curiosity or self improvement. If you want the honor system back then you need to offer more stable safety nets. It's not "kids these days", it's the natural result of the systems adults have made.

[nerdsniper]

> Back in your day education was not sold as a financial transaction to a prosperous life.

Yes it was. This was the pitch for as long as Google has existed. The only relevant change from the early days of Google is that now you also need to go to a T20 school and GPA inflation has gone completely insane.

[nekusar]

Exactly.

College is a pure financial transaction, and a quite bad one especially if you fail.

As for me, I use a HDMI redirect to another computer that runs a local LLM. Screen scrapes and puts the answer on the screen as an overlay.

And you can run it in proxmox. I sell services to set this up. Can't be detected, and user controls an error rate calc.

BTW, I have no degree myself. And I have no greater ioy than devaluing everyone's degrees. Its always been a fucking rick kids game. Time to take em down a notch .

[npstr]

Seems easy to counter all of this. I study at a German remote university, and they require, next to the front camera, a second camera to record the screen + hands and arms of the student while taking exams, and before the exam starts a complete video of the room, below desk areas, ears, etc. I don't see an angle how to reliably cheat in such conditions, and have seen nothing mentioned by any other student. So I would say it's up to the university if they want to allow fraud like that...they could easily stop it.