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Scammers are enrolling fake students at U.S. community colleges and using AI to complete coursework…

…enabling them to collect financial aid fraudulently. The scheme exploits AI's ability to generate convincing academic work at scale.

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Scammers are enrolling fake students at U.S. community colleges and using AI to complete coursework, enabling them to collect financial aid fraudulently. The scheme exploits AI's ability to generate convincing academic work at scale.