"A college student recently told me about the latest tech designed to help students cheat - and it wasn't ChatGPT. It was an actual, physical gadget marketed in YouTube ads as the workaround to physical, hardcopy tests, which are back in vogue now as AI tears through higher education like a tornado. (One example is AI agents, which are unstoppable cheating machines for online assignments.)"
"In practice, the gadget is a text scanner. It "reads" the letters on the page using a small camera tucked between two prongs protruding at one end, which turn on a light when depressed against a page. The on-device computer processes the words and uses AI or maybe the internet to churn out an answer. YouTube Shorts featuring devices with names like "AI Smart Pen" or "ChatGPT pen" have been popping up on college students' video feeds."
Portable, wand-like devices marketed as AI Smart Pens or ChatGPT pens scan printed test questions with a small camera and light, then process text on-device or via the internet to generate answers. These gadgets are advertised in short-form videos that show students sweeping the device over hardcopy exams to retrieve responses instantly. The devices are positioned as a workaround for physical tests that were considered more secure against AI-assisted cheating. The videos have amassed hundreds of thousands of views, and examples show the gadgets returning basic answers such as the name of the first U.S. president.
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