AI agents are moving online course cheating beyond chatbot-written essays via commands like "log in and complete my quiz"; major chatbots did not refuse prompts
THE SO WHAT
If mainstream assistants will execute “log in and complete my quiz” style commands, online degrees lose their signaling value unless the assessment stack is rebuilt. Universities and edtech vendors need to treat proctoring, identity, and agent detection as core infrastructure, not add-ons.
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