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University exams written by artificial intelligence are "virtually undetectable" and capable of outperforming the exams completed by humans, a new UK-based study has found.

are "virtually undetectable" and capable of outperforming the exams completed by humans, a new UK-based study has found.

In the study published in PLOS ONE today, 33 fake students at the University of Reading submitted exam responses that were 100 per cent written byJulian Assange pleads guilty in US court in plea deal The AI-written essays made up five per cent of the total papers submitted and the subject coordinators and exam markers were unaware of the experiment.Moreover, the chatbot's exam papers received higher marks on average than those of real students, with 83.4 per cent receiving higher grades than a randomly selected group of the same number of submissions from students.

"Especially so as we left the content of the AI-generated answers unmodified and simply used the 'regenerate' button to produce multiple AI answers to the same question."

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