"A few months ago, a high school English teacher in Los Angeles Unified noticed something different about his students' tests. Students who had struggled all semester were suddenly getting A's. He suspected some were cheating, but he couldn't figure out how. Until a student showed him the latest version of Google Lens. "I couldn't believe it," said teacher Dustin Stevenson. "It's hard enough to teach in the age of AI, and now we have to navigate this?""
"Google had recently made the visual search tool easier to use on the company's Chrome browser. When users click on an icon hidden in the tool bar, a moveable bubble pops up. Wherever the bubble is placed, a sidebar appears with an artificial intelligence answer, description, explanation or interpretation of whatever is inside the bubble. For students, it provides an easy way to cheat on digital tests without typing in a prompt, or even leaving the page. All they have to do is click."
Teachers report widespread misuse of Google Lens during digital tests, enabling students to obtain AI-generated answers by placing a movable bubble over test content in Chrome. The Lens sidebar returns explanations, answers, or interpretations without requiring prompts or page navigation, simplifying cheating. Chromebooks, widely distributed during COVID closures and still used by millions of California K-12 students, make Lens accessible in classrooms. Educators describe enforcing academic integrity as a cat-and-mouse struggle that AI has intensified, and express concern about long-term harms to student learning and assessment reliability.
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