In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students’ midterm. It was about the…

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    Well, it’s always the stupid ones, that’s why stuff like this is effective. You will never catch a good student cheating with that method

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        Checks out with my experience in university. I had like 3-4 classmates in software engineering that could program a simple program that ran. And this was before LLMs. You don’t even need to cheat to pass while being absolutely incompetent. Of course, some people also cheated.

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      Some people are too smart to fall for it, and dumb people know they’re dumb, so they don’t try, because they know they’ll get caught.

      You need those special ones who are too dumb to actually learn, but still think they are smart enough to outsmart a system that is beyond the comprehension of their puny minds. In other words, MAGAs.