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

May 18, 2026The Decoder

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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. The article A Stanford student reflects on his ChatGPT class and

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