Students Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Tests

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Noel Joshua Hadley

Smart glasses aren’t just being used by juvenile pranksters and pickup artists to terrorize strangers, traumatize Meta’s data labeling subcontractors in Kenya, and covertly receive advice while being cross-examined in court.

As Rest of World reports, students in China are also using them to cheat during exams. One university student, identified as Vivian, told the publication that she uses her Rokid AI glasses to scan questions and display answers on the integrated screen. (Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses with a built-in screen are currently only available in the US, but alternatives are available worldwide.)

Vivian also took the idea in an entrepreneurial direction, renting out her spectacles to other schoolmates to turn her investment into a lucrative side hustle.

Thanks to the advent of AI, the smart glasses industry has gained a considerable boost, allowing owners to take pictures, record videos, analyze the world around them, translate road signs, get directions, or read from a script during presentations.

But thanks to their steep price, consumers in China are turning to secondhand marketplaces like Xianyu to rent a pair instead, according to Rest of World. Prices range from the equivalent of $6 to $12 a day, depending on the model.

The gizmos are proving particularly useful for cheating students. With a small controller in the shape of a ring, students can covertly use them to answer English and math questions, as Shenzhen-based businessman Ke Changsi, who rents out Rokid and Quark smart glasses, told the publication.

But the country’s secondary education program has started to catch on, explicitly banning the devices from national college entrance and civil service exams. Many teachers, however, aren’t tuned into the trend — at least for now. After all, the current offerings from the likes of Rokid and Meta bear a striking visual resemblance to their unenhanced equivalents.

Outside of cheating on exams, the tech is still far from perfect. The devices still weigh considerably more than a pair of conventional glasses or sunglasses. They also have to be charged frequently thanks to smaller-than-ideal batteries.

But that doesn’t mean they excel at giving cheaters an unfair advantage at school. In an experiment earlier this year, researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology added OpenAI’s powerful GPT-5.2 large language model to a pair of Rokid glasses and asked a student to wear them during a “stressful final exam week” in a class of over 100 students.

The student “achieved an astonishing score of 92.5” in their final undergraduate computer communication networks class, placing them “among the top five” in the class.

More on smart glasses: Man Caught Using Smart Glasses to Get Advice While Being Cross-Examined in Court

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Sacred Scripture

Acts 28 ends abruptly and that’s never sat right with me. With the inclusion of Acts 29, we are given a nice well-rounded finale to Luke’s biography and some interesting closure to Pontius Pilate as well. Join me as I continue my Lost Books of the Bible series on YouTube, reading from Acts 29, 3 Corinthians, and the Phoenix of Tertullian.

You can read along with these texts and more on our Sacred Scripture page. 

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

Read the 9/11 Interviews

Watch the Interviews