Everyone's Cheating, Even Professors 📚

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There's a lot of talk about how AI is making cheating easier than ever, and most people want to find a way to stop it. But the problem goes much deeper than we typically assume. This video covers AI-assisted cheating (like with ChatGPT, Claude, etc.), the value of education (and Caplan's signaling theory), and the reason why professors and researchers commit fraud.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/chatgpt-college-professors.html
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20190224031626/https://blog.openai.com/introducing-openai/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/ohio-state-university/ohio-state-announces-every-student-will-use-ai-in-class/
https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/a-matter-of-words/
Bryan Caplan, 'The Case Against Education'
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/alternative-credentials/2024/07/30/2031-more-good-jobs-will-require-bachelors
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/27/gino-tenure-revoked/
https://datacolada.org/109
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/23/plagiarism-culture-war-feature/
https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/26/651849441/cornell-food-researchers-downfall-raises-larger-questions-for-sciencehttps://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/26/651849441/cornell-food-researchers-downfall-raises-larger-questions-for-science
Liam Kofi Bright, 'Why Do Scientists Lie?' (article: https://www.liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/9/8/48985425/why-do-scientists-lie.pdf)
Liam Kofi Bright, 'Why Do Scientists Lie?' (lecture: https://youtu.be/mNs1sumAT68?si=F2WA8gwDLTkYsuSB)

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00:00 Beginning
01:00 AI is Doing Everything
03:57 What's the Point of Going to College?
07:46 Academic Frauds
12:23 Why do They Lie?