Student arrested for using ChatGPT during medical entrance exam

A candidate used ChatGPT to write the essay for the entrance exam at the Santa Casa Faculty of Medical Sciences in Ribeirão Preto, in the interior of São Paulo. Arrested on Sunday (22). He was caught by the inspector while accessing generative artificial intelligence (AI) developed by OpenAI.

According to this G1The 19-year-old caught the room inspector’s attention by touching something while frequently looking under the table. The boy said as the contractor for the event organizers approached him. He used a mobile phone to cheat in the entrance exam.

The student, who was asked why he used his smartphone during the prohibited exam, tried to hide the device by saying that he was not feeling well. But later When he got to the room he admitted that he had not just one but two phones.

The first device was handed over to inspectors and sealed before testing began, as is normally the case for entrance exams and competitions. Already the second one was hidden in his backpackand this is what was used to access ChatGPT to seek help in preparing the article.

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message exchange

In addition to using generative AI to write the article, the candidate who took the entrance exam for the Santa Casa Faculty of Medical Sciences in Ribeirão Preto also wrote the article using his mobile phone. exchanging messages with a person outside the building. He helped her answer test questions.

The university student who confessed to fraud was arrested and the mobile phone he used to cheat was confiscated. However, he paid bail of R$2,600 and is now free.. The incident at Universidade Paulista (Unip) was recorded in the police report as “fraud in public interest competitions”.

The São Paulo State University Entrance Examination Foundation (Vunesp), responsible for organizing the test, confirmed in a statement: candidate was eliminated from the exam. The company also stated that its other competitors did not suffer any losses.