AI Chinese companies temporarily detained some of their chatbot functions to prevent students from using them to cheat during national college exams, Bloomberg Reports. Popular AI applications, including Qwen and Dubebao Alibaba, have ceased to recognize the image from answering questions about test documents, while Yuanbao Tencent, Kimi Mononhot suspended photographic services in full during the exam hours.
The growing availability of chatbots meant that it was easier for students around the world to cheat education. Schools in the USA are trying to solve this problem by introducing paper tests again, with Wall Street Journal Reporting in May This sale of blue books has increased at universities throughout the country over the past two years.
The strict multi-day “Gaokao” exams are over 13.3 million Chinese students on June 7-10, each of which is fighting to secure one of the restricted places at universities throughout the country. Students are already forbidden to apply devices such as telephones and laptops during hourly tests, so turning off the AI chatbots serves as an additional safety net to prevent cheating during the exam season.
Asked to explain the suspension, Bloomberg He reports that Yuanbao and Kimi Chatbots replied that the functions were excluded “to ensure the integrity of the entrance exams.” Similarly, the Deepseek AI tool, which became viral at the beginning of this year, also blocks its service at certain times “to ensure honesty during the entrance exam.” According to The Guardian.
We were not able to find any public announcements of these AI companies The Guardian Reporting that messages about closures are directed by students on the Chinese Social Platform Weibo. The GAOKAO entrance exam is incurred at fierce competition, because this is the only way to secure an internship in College in China, fears that students can try to escalate their chances of AI tools.