About 600 students at Konkuk University must retake a midterm exam in person after signs emerged that artificial intelligence had been used to cheat on the online test for a general education course.
A professor identified only as A decided to void the midterm, held online on the 19th of this month, after concluding that cheating including the use of AI had occurred, education sources said on the 23rd. The course is an online general education class on the Korean language with about 600 students enrolled, according to the sources. The professor will administer the midterm retest together with the final exam in person on Dec. 14, the day the final had been scheduled.
The cheating allegations spread after a student posted on an online campus community that they had scored 99 on the exam using AI. The student wrote that they had based their answers on correct answers supplied by AI, according to the post.