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A score of 397.5 out of 400 is hard to achieve by normal means. In April, the top scorer on South Korea’s certified tax accountant exam missed just one out of 160 questions during the first round. By July, he took the second round, scoring 192 and 190 across two accounting subjects, alongside 114 and 167 in two tax law subjects. Those marks secured him the overall first-place rank nationwide.

The run did not hold up. The man, whose name has not been disclosed, recently appeared in a media interview to discuss his high scores. That public victory lap backfired. Online communities quickly raised suspicions about the numbers, prompting him to admit the fraud on a lawyer’s YouTube channel and turn himself in to the police.

The setup was simple hardware and cloud software. He used a miniature camera to photograph the test questions, transmitted the images to generative artificial intelligence, and pulled up the generated answers on a smartphone.

“I cheated by taking pictures of the questions with a miniature camera, sending them to AI, and checking the answers on a smartphone,” the man stated on the channel. “I wrote down everything I did in a statement of voluntary surrender and submitted it to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.” He added that he used the exact same technique to cheat on a certified public accountant exam.

South Korea has seen a series of similar attempts lately. Other test-takers have been caught using AI glasses during university entrance exams as well as middle and high school tests.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency received the confession statement and stated it plans to run a swift and thorough investigation. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance and Economy said it plans to move quickly to suspend the validity of the certificate confirming he passed the exam.

Under local law, anyone caught cheating faces an invalidated test result and a five-year ban from taking the exam, running from the date the sanction takes effect. The case could also lead to criminal charges depending on the police findings.

Source: Thehawk

This article was researched and drafted with AI assistance.

Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels

A score of 397.5 out of 400 is hard to achieve by normal means. In April, the top scorer on South Korea’s certified tax accountant exam missed just one out of 160 questions during the first round. By July, he took the second round, scoring 192 and 190 across two accounting subjects, alongside 114 and 167 in two tax law subjects. Those marks secured him the overall first-place rank nationwide.

The run did not hold up. The man, whose name has not been disclosed, recently appeared in a media interview to discuss his high scores. That public victory lap backfired. Online communities quickly raised suspicions about the numbers, prompting him to admit the fraud on a lawyer’s YouTube channel and turn himself in to the police.

The setup was simple hardware and cloud software. He used a miniature camera to photograph the test questions, transmitted the images to generative artificial intelligence, and pulled up the generated answers on a smartphone.

“I cheated by taking pictures of the questions with a miniature camera, sending them to AI, and checking the answers on a smartphone,” the man stated on the channel. “I wrote down everything I did in a statement of voluntary surrender and submitted it to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.” He added that he used the exact same technique to cheat on a certified public accountant exam.

South Korea has seen a series of similar attempts lately. Other test-takers have been caught using AI glasses during university entrance exams as well as middle and high school tests.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency received the confession statement and stated it plans to run a swift and thorough investigation. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance and Economy said it plans to move quickly to suspend the validity of the certificate confirming he passed the exam.

Under local law, anyone caught cheating faces an invalidated test result and a five-year ban from taking the exam, running from the date the sanction takes effect. The case could also lead to criminal charges depending on the police findings.

Source: Thehawk

This article was researched and drafted with AI assistance.

Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels

A score of 397.5 out of 400 is hard to achieve by normal means. In April, the top scorer on South Korea’s certified tax accountant exam missed just one out of 160 questions during the first round. By July, he took the second round, scoring 192 and 190 across two accounting subjects, alongside 114 and 167 in two tax law subjects. Those marks secured him the overall first-place rank nationwide.

The run did not hold up. The man, whose name has not been disclosed, recently appeared in a media interview to discuss his high scores. That public victory lap backfired. Online communities quickly raised suspicions about the numbers, prompting him to admit the fraud on a lawyer’s YouTube channel and turn himself in to the police.

The setup was simple hardware and cloud software. He used a miniature camera to photograph the test questions, transmitted the images to generative artificial intelligence, and pulled up the generated answers on a smartphone.

“I cheated by taking pictures of the questions with a miniature camera, sending them to AI, and checking the answers on a smartphone,” the man stated on the channel. “I wrote down everything I did in a statement of voluntary surrender and submitted it to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.” He added that he used the exact same technique to cheat on a certified public accountant exam.

South Korea has seen a series of similar attempts lately. Other test-takers have been caught using AI glasses during university entrance exams as well as middle and high school tests.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency received the confession statement and stated it plans to run a swift and thorough investigation. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance and Economy said it plans to move quickly to suspend the validity of the certificate confirming he passed the exam.

Under local law, anyone caught cheating faces an invalidated test result and a five-year ban from taking the exam, running from the date the sanction takes effect. The case could also lead to criminal charges depending on the police findings.

Source: Thehawk

This article was researched and drafted with AI assistance.

Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels

A score of 397.5 out of 400 is hard to achieve by normal means. In April, the top scorer on South Korea’s certified tax accountant exam missed just one out of 160 questions during the first round. By July, he took the second round, scoring 192 and 190 across two accounting subjects, alongside 114 and 167 in two tax law subjects. Those marks secured him the overall first-place rank nationwide.

The run did not hold up. The man, whose name has not been disclosed, recently appeared in a media interview to discuss his high scores. That public victory lap backfired. Online communities quickly raised suspicions about the numbers, prompting him to admit the fraud on a lawyer’s YouTube channel and turn himself in to the police.

The setup was simple hardware and cloud software. He used a miniature camera to photograph the test questions, transmitted the images to generative artificial intelligence, and pulled up the generated answers on a smartphone.

“I cheated by taking pictures of the questions with a miniature camera, sending them to AI, and checking the answers on a smartphone,” the man stated on the channel. “I wrote down everything I did in a statement of voluntary surrender and submitted it to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.” He added that he used the exact same technique to cheat on a certified public accountant exam.

South Korea has seen a series of similar attempts lately. Other test-takers have been caught using AI glasses during university entrance exams as well as middle and high school tests.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency received the confession statement and stated it plans to run a swift and thorough investigation. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance and Economy said it plans to move quickly to suspend the validity of the certificate confirming he passed the exam.

Under local law, anyone caught cheating faces an invalidated test result and a five-year ban from taking the exam, running from the date the sanction takes effect. The case could also lead to criminal charges depending on the police findings.

Source: Thehawk

This article was researched and drafted with AI assistance.