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Multiple Purported AI-Assisted Cheating Incidents Reported Across South Korea's SKY Universities During October 2025 Midterms
- Occurred
- Oct 15, 2025
- Published
- Nov 14, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Reports from South Korea's SKY universities indicate multiple AI-assisted cheating incidents during the October 2025 midterms. At Yonsei, dozens reportedly used ChatGPT and other tools despite bans in an Oct. 15 online exam. Korea University and Seoul National reportedly found students using AI or sharing answers via group chats, prompting punitive sanctions across the institutions.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Generative AI developers
Deployers
- Students at Yonsei University
- Students at Seoul National University
- Students at Korea University
Harmed parties
- Yonsei University
- Students at Yonsei University
- Students at Seoul National University
- Students at Korea University
- Seoul National University
- Korea University
- General public of Korea
- Faculty and staff at Yonsei University
- Faculty and staff at Seoul National University
- Faculty and staff at Korea University
- Epistemic integrity
- Students
- University students
- Educational communities
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI tools used for academic cheating, representing misuse of language models in educational settings.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8