A Stanford student reflects on his ChatGPT class and a culture of "just a little bit of fraud"

Stanford senior Theo Baker argues in the New York Times that his class came of age in the ChatGPT era, where dishonesty felt increasingly normalized.

He says cheating, fraud, and plagiarism were already present, but generative AI made them more routine and harder to police.

A campus survey found many computer science majors would rather cheat than fail, underscoring the scale of the problem.

In response, Stanford has brought back proctored handwritten exams and other measures to protect academic integrity.