AI cheating ‘helps’ high schoolers with homework, but harms them on exams, says unsurprising study:
“AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months...The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing”
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618
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