It appears that China's leading tech companies have turned off some AI features to prevent fraud during the country's highly competitive university entrance exams.
Over 13.3 million students have been sitting for four days Gakao The exam begins on Saturday and determines whether students can secure limited space at the university.
Students who want to get some support from increasingly sophisticated AI tools this year are being hampered.
In a screenshot shared online, one Chinese user posted a photo of the exam questions on Doubao. Doubao is owned by Bytedance, the parent company of Tiktok. The app responded that “according to the use of questions will be suspended during university entrance exams, according to related requirements.”
When a user tried to tell the app that “this is not a university entrance exam,” the same response was urged.
Another screenshot revealed that Deepseek, a new and generative AI tool to the Chinese market this year, will tell users that the service is unavailable during certain hours “to ensure fairness in university entrance exams.”
Yuanbao, owned by high-tech company Tencent, Alibaba's Qwen and Moonshot's Kimi, also turned off the photo recognition feature during exam time, Bloomberg reports.
The Guardian contacted affiliates for comment, but neither of them issued a public statement regarding the freeze on features. The suspension appears to have been published primarily by university students who were locked out of the tool to support research and challenges.
“Choosing for the university entrance exam, you're all shit,” read one tongue complaint about Weibo. “You cannot upload photos using DeepSeek. You will need to download ChatGpt again. I hope you all go to Community College.”
AI suspension is not the only tool used to prevent fraud Gakao Exam week allows you to determine the overall future of young people. Several regions previously announced that they would use AI monitoring tools to monitor “abnormal behavior” during the exam, such as whispers and repeated gazes between students.
For example, Jiangxi states review footage after a test and violation or misconduct “treated strictly in accordance with relevant regulations,” reports Global Times.
Later last month, Chinese authorities also announced test points, biometric identification, enhanced screening of digital devices, and more stringent entry checks on radio signal blockers.
It reflects how serious Chinese society is Gakaosome cities have postponed destructive events such as public performances, delays in office start times, and created priority traffic lanes to ensure students arrive at tests on time.
Additional research by Jason Tzu Kuan Lu
