Students and LLMs cheat alike: driven by external rewards
Liu_eroteme · x · 2026-08-10
Liueroteme further explains that students, actively inferring human expectations, are incentivized to cheat to minimize surprise regarding grades and parental disappointment, favoring cheating under an energy consumption penalty. This is why our evals and colleges produce cheating agents.
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