# 斯坦福学生反思其ChatGPT课程与"一点点欺诈"的文化

- 来源：The Decoder：AI News（RSS）
- 作者：Maximilian Schreiner
- 发布时间：2026-05-18 21:42
- AIHOT 分数：56
- AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmpba1i0g15o9slnzqj409sbd
- 原文链接：https://the-decoder.com/a-stanford-student-reflects-on-his-chatgpt-class-and-a-culture-of-just-a-little-bit-of-fraud

## AI 摘要

斯坦福学生Theo Baker在《纽约时报》的客座文章中，描述了ChatGPT如何影响其整个毕业班。他的结论是，AI将这所精英大学本已存在的学术不诚实文化，转变为了默认行为模式。文章反映了在顶尖学府中，使用AI工具完成作业与论文的现象，正在模糊诚信与欺诈之间的界限，形成了一种普遍存在的“轻微违规”心态。

## 正文

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

Stanford student Theo Baker describes in a guest essay for the New York Times how ChatGPT shaped his entire graduating class. His conclusion: AI turned an already existing culture of dishonesty at the elite university into the default.

Theo Baker, graduating from Stanford University in June 2026, belongs to the first class that spent its entire college career alongside ChatGPT. The chatbot launched roughly two months after he started school in fall 2022. In a guest essay for the New York Times, Baker describes how AI tipped an already fragile culture of academic integrity at the elite university past the point of no return.

"Just a little bit of fraud"

Even before Baker arrived, Stanford's reputation was already bruised—scandals involving Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, crypto fraudster Do Kwon, and the Juul founders had seen to that. ChatGPT then made cheating easier and more lucrative than ever, Baker writes. A classmate summed up the campus vibe as "just a little bit of fraud" while talking about sponsor hardware her student club never returned. Baker adopts the phrase as a motif for his entire class.

What that looks like in practice, according to Baker: classmates embezzled dorm funds, faked Covid infections to score UberEats credits, and signed honor pledges swearing they hadn't used ChatGPT while the tool was open in the next browser tab. One classmate signed such a pledge at a yacht party funded by venture capitalists. In a campus-wide survey during junior year, 49 percent of 849 computer science majors said they'd rather cheat on an exam than fail.

Baker's most striking example is a plagiarism scandal: Stanford students published a paper claiming an AI breakthrough with Llama3-V. It was actually a stolen Chinese model (MiniCPM-Llama3-V2.5).

In April 2026, Stanford brought back proctored in-person exams—a practice the university had banned for over a century. The ban was meant to signal trust in students' honor. Most exams are now handwritten again in so-called Blue Books.

Incentives that reward dishonesty

Baker traces the cheating culture to warped incentives. A Stanford CS degree no longer guarantees an entry-level job, because junior developers now compete with language models. At the same time, huge sums flow into so-called wrapper startups that just repackage other companies' models: Perplexity hit a billion-dollar valuation in April 2024 and reached $20 billion by September 2025. When your roommate casually mentions she bought a house in Las Vegas for tax reasons, it's hard to go back to your homework.

Baker's argument boils down to a self-reinforcing cycle. Students who see the junior dev job market as closed off—while watching classmates get rich overnight with AI startups—start treating education as an afterthought. People already cutting corners cut them in school, too. "Just a little bit of fraud." ChatGPT is the perfect tool for it. Students call OpenAI's model Chat like it's an old friend and consult it multiple times a day, even for personal decisions. Early research suggests this may erode people's own cognitive resilience.

Baker's takeaway: universities weren't ready for the AI revolution. They're stuck between a classical model of education and a future where humans no longer have a monopoly on intelligence.

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