Chinese AI companies, including Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent, temporarily disabled image recognition features in their chatbots during the nationwide gaokao college entrance exams. This measure, confirmed by chatbot responses and social media posts, aims to prevent cheating by students. The move comes amid a global rise in AI-facilitated academic dishonesty, prompting some US schools to revert to paper tests. Millions of Chinese students take the rigorous gaokao exams, making preventing cheating crucial.

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