Chinese students are increasingly renting AI-powered smart glasses to covertly cheat on exams, with one student even turning the scheme into a side hustle by renting her Rokid glasses to classmates.
Chinese students are using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat on exams, scanning questions and displaying answers on integrated screens. One university student, identified as Vivian, uses Rokid AI glasses and rents them to classmates as a side hustle.
With rentals available on secondhand marketplace Xianyu for $6 to $12 daily, the devices are increasingly accessible. A small ring-shaped controller lets students covertly answer English and math questions, according to Shenzhen-based rental businessman Ke Changsi.
China’s secondary education system has begun banning the devices from national college entrance and civil service exams, though many teachers remain unaware of the trend.
In a Hong Kong University of Science and Technology experiment, a student wearing Rokid glasses loaded with GPT-5.2 “achieved an astonishing score of 92.5,” placing them “among the top five” in a class of over 100 students.
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