Seems like an application of Goodhart's law; measuring worth by degree or grades stopped measuring learning or ability.

This was a lot harder to cheat before AI, but now the floodgates are open and grades and degrees earned post-AI are showing that they mean little.

Cheating on college tests should be a jailable criminal offense (similar to computer fraud) so that there is dignity in the degree again. Considering the money involved, I don't see why not.

But this probably won't happen, because many rich people are very happy to buy their degrees. See also [1]

https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/09/the-real-reason-student...

You don’t even need to go that far. If they just expelled cheaters instead of trying to sweep it under the rug and ignore it that would go a long way.

Ideas like cheating on a college test should be jailable is why the US leads in number of jailed people

>so that there is dignity in the degree again.

How far back do you need to go to get to a time when degrees mattered?

> measuring worth by degree or grades stopped measuring learning or ability.

It still does if the test is in person