US EditionAlibaba, Tencent Suspend AI Tools Amid Crucial National Exam in China
- China's major tech firms, including Tencent and ByteDance, disabled AI functions during the gaokao exam period from Saturday to Tuesday across the country.
- This action addressed concerns over cheating and sought to maintain fairness in the gaokao, which is being taken this year by roughly 13 million candidates.
- Several leading Chinese AI chatbots temporarily disabled their question-answering and image recognition functions during exam periods to uphold the integrity of the college entrance tests.
- Doubao announced that its Q&A feature would be suspended during the college entrance exams and resume at 6:45 p.m. afterward, while YuanBao informed users that the function would be disabled throughout the examination period to maintain equitable conditions.
- China enforces AI education starting this fall with eight hours per academic year in Beijing schools while drawing a firm line against AI use for cheating during exams.
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China Froze AI Tools Nationwide to Prevent Cheating in College Exams
Here in the States, we constantly hear about students freaking out about the SATs or the LSAT’s or whatever other standardized test people have to take to reach some new upper echelon of their educational or professional careers. China has something similar. It’s called the gaokao. It’s an intense multi-day set of exams taken by somewhere around 13 million prospective college students. For nine hours, spread across three days, high school studen…
Catbots and applications using artificial intelligence have been deactivated during the baccalaureate equivalent tests, to prevent Chinese students from being used to cheat.
AI chatbots restricted in China during exam season to prevent cheating
Makers of some of China's most popular AI apps, including Alibaba's Qwen and ByteDance's Doubao, have stopped the tools' picture-recognition features from responding whenever they are used to identify and answer questions related to tests, reports Bloomberg. Others, including Tencent's Yuanbao and Moonshot's Kimi, have completely disabled their photo-recognition services...Read Entire Article
China’s tech firms block AI access during high-stakes college entrance exams
As millions of high school seniors began sitting for China’s high-stakes national exam from Saturday, the country’s biggest tech firms temporarily blocked their AI tools. He Hongfu/VCG via Getty Images In China, one exam can decide your future, and this year, students weren’t allowed any help from AI. As millions of high school seniors began sitting for China’s notoriously grueling “gaokao” college entrance exam from Saturday, the country’s bigg…
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As millions of high school seniors began sitting for China's high-stakes national exam from Saturday, the country's biggest tech firms temporarily blocked their AI tools.He Hongfu/VCG via Getty ImagesChina's tech giants disabled some AI functions during the national college entrance exam period.About 13.4 million students are sitting for the "gaokao" this year — China's high-stakes national exam.China may be pushing AI education, but it's drawin…
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