Google Chrome Feature Makes A.I. Cheating Easier, Teachers Say ⇥ themarkup.org

Carolyn Jones, the Markup:

Google has recently made the visual search tool easier to use on the company’s Chrome browser. When users click on an icon in the Google search bar, a moveable bubble pops up. Wherever the bubble is placed, a sidebar appears with an artificial intelligence answer, description, explanation or interpretation of whatever is inside the bubble. For students, it provides an easy way to cheat on digital tests without typing in a prompt, or even leaving the page. All they have to do is click.

“I couldn’t believe it,” said teacher Dustin Stevenson. “It’s hard enough to teach in the age of AI, and now we have to navigate this?”

As browsers are increasingly augmented with A.I. features, I expect to see more stories like this one. In Google’s case, it is particularly egregious as the company’s Chromebooks are widely used in education.