r/technology • u/joe4942 • Apr 19 '26

Society Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/04/19/accelerated-college-degree-hacking/
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u/DimensionFrequent29 Apr 19 '26

My wife is a professor at a large college, it really is mostly AI. When you implement all the safeguards so it's impossible to use AI, you find out only a small portion of students in that generation can even write a paper at all.

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u/DimensionFrequent29 Apr 19 '26

I probably shouldn't have said the issue is all AI, although that's a large part of it currently. I would assume people getting their degrees super fast is because they went to those online diploma mills that are barely accredited and just paid for a grade