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GenAI Agent Imposters: A Cautionary Tale
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- Feb 11, 2026
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Summary
You are teaching an asynchronous online course. One of thousands such courses. You discover that one student has engaged a GenAI agent imposter to take the course in their place. The GenAI imposter reads and responds to the course readings; it takes the quizzes; it completes and submits the culminating project. Algorithmically, without any participation from the student. What might this mean for the student? ...for you? ...for your institution?