"Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College"
Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 11:02 pm
https://archive.ph/mQ9AJ
Read it all. It's long, but just keeps getting more and more hilarious.
Remember: students were using Wikipedia to cheat on assignments in the 2000s and 2010s. It became so commonplace that numerous companies popped up to scan written homework for copying from WP or other online sources. Turnitin was one of the major systems, there are plenty more. But now we have ChatGPT acting as a "semi-dumb middleman". And loads of its sources were scraped from Wikipedia anyway, so the WP cribbing will continue.
And so what? College students have cheated since the dawn of higher education. When I was in college in the 1970s, many of the students were openly cheating by purchasing essays from "essay pushers" on campus, and very few of them were ever caught.
Read it all. It's long, but just keeps getting more and more hilarious.
Remember: students were using Wikipedia to cheat on assignments in the 2000s and 2010s. It became so commonplace that numerous companies popped up to scan written homework for copying from WP or other online sources. Turnitin was one of the major systems, there are plenty more. But now we have ChatGPT acting as a "semi-dumb middleman". And loads of its sources were scraped from Wikipedia anyway, so the WP cribbing will continue.
And so what? College students have cheated since the dawn of higher education. When I was in college in the 1970s, many of the students were openly cheating by purchasing essays from "essay pushers" on campus, and very few of them were ever caught.