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SoCal Matters
Bots Posing as College Students
Season 2024
Episode 4
All across California, bots are posing as fake college students — which has been wreaking havoc on the state's community colleges. This often AI-assisted fraud has become an issue in financial aid applications and certain kinds of online classes — forcing professors to spend time verifying real human enrollments instead of actually teaching. Adam Echelman reports for CalMatters.
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