Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested

Ars Technica tells of a story of a student who probably should have gotten seed funding rather than arrested:

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 software generated the correct answers and recited them to the student through an earpiece.

That sounds to me like a great product – but a highly discouraged use case.

Read their full report here.

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