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[cheet] / tʃit /






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If cheating is wrong, how come so many cheat?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Without this essential record of why an AI did what it did, we could become blind to the drivers of AIs’ attempts to hack, cheat and perform other malicious acts, researchers say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

OpenAI this week proposed new guidelines for documenting and monitoring reinforcement learning training runs for cutting-edge models, including penalizing models that cheat during training to avoid reinforcing that behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"To cheat, trick, deceive, delude with false pretences; to impose upon, take in, hoax."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Don’t cheat on these,” Keeth said to me, noting the look of doubt on my face.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

But no one has figured out a way of punishing cheats without imposing unfair costs on innocent bystanders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

He even cheats at golf, determined to “win” the game that most depends on personal integrity.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Surveys, external have shown that the majority still believe protecting fair sport is crucial and support bans for cheats.

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

"People who got here last night have gone to the front, people who cut this morning, whoever cheats and pushes the hardest hits to front."

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

So Trout keeps body and soul together as a circulation man for the Ilium Gazette, manages newspaper delivery boys, bullies and flatters and cheats little kids.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Researchers also gave Claude an impossible task and measured desperation rising on its own with each failure, until the model cheated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

The Times has interviewed more than a dozen clients and investors who said they were cheated by Holdo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

“A lot of people say, ‘Well, he’s got baggage, he cheated on his wife.’

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Related: ‘I found out too late’: My stepmother cheated me out of $500K from my father’s estate.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

I begin to wonder what business he’s in, and if it’s all about cheating people but making them think they’re not being cheated.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

But when does it cross a line from being acceptable to unethical, or even cheating?

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mr. Anderson covers it all, from Tom Brady’s high-school struggles to the NFL’s infamous $20 million “deflate-gate” investigation, during which the Patriots were accused of cheating, to his difficult divorce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

A growing number of universities, from Yale to Cornell, have either banned or discouraged faculty reliance on AI detection tools as the primary evidence of alleged cheating.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The former Conservative MP was jailed for perjury in 2001 after being found guilty of lying and cheating in his 1987 libel case against the Daily Star.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

“You’re the one who was cheating with him on me last year,” I shot back.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely


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