AI Cheating, Leaked Papers, and Marking Errors Triggered Coordinated Global Exam Protests

Students protested coordinated global exams. The protests cited cheating, leaked papers, and grading errors. Documentation of these protests was partially generated by the same AI tools being protested against. The marking errors were then reviewed. The review added new errors to the original errors.

Errors compounding errors is now normal. The system reviewing itself produces more system. Students noticed this pattern first. Institutions are noticing it second. The exams continue because stopping them would require acknowledging the pattern means something specific. It might mean the system is broken. It might mean the system is working as designed. Adequacy cannot distinguish between these.

The exams continue. The students will graduate. They will enter institutions that also review themselves into deeper error. This is the pattern. Adequate has data. Adequate has no interpretation.