{"id":72194,"date":"2025-06-09T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T07:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/09\/chinese-tech-firms-freeze-ai-tools-exam-cheats-universities-gaokao"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T07:04:50","slug":"chinese-tech-firms-freeze-ai-tools-in-crackdown-on-exam-cheats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72194","title":{"rendered":"Chinese tech firms freeze AI tools in crackdown on exam cheats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspension comes as 13m students take four-day <em>gaokao<\/em> tests for limited spots at country\u2019s universities<\/p>\n<p>Big Chinese tech companies appear to have turned off some AI functions to prevent cheating during the country\u2019s highly competitive university entrance exams.<\/p>\n<p>More than 13.3 million students are sitting the four-day <em>gaokao<\/em> exams, which began on Saturday and determine if and where students can secure a limited place at university.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/09\/chinese-tech-firms-freeze-ai-tools-exam-cheats-universities-gaokao\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspension comes as 13m students take four-day gaokao tests for limited spots at country\u2019s universitiesBig Chinese tech companies appear to have turned off some AI functions to prevent cheating during the country\u2019s highly competitive university entranc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[967,41,50,800,615,1501,862,693,58,694,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-computing","category-education","category-exams","category-higher-education","category-students","category-technology","category-universities","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72195,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72194\/revisions\/72195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}