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Fifty-eight thousand applicants must resit an exam the proctor could not police

development2026-08-04

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UNAM, Mexico's largest university, ran its first remote entrance exam and got scores so implausible that 58,000 applicants must sit it again, the proctoring AI having lost to the test-taking AI.

Reported metric: 58,000 applicants

Reporting date: 2026-08-04 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 4, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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UNAM

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A baby monitor scores sleep efficiency for a million users

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Welcome to August 4, 2026

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Fifty-eight thousand applicants must resit an exam the proctor could not police
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-08-04
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-04-the-proctoring-ai-lost-to-the-test-taking-ai
Claim: UNAM, Mexico's largest university, ran its first remote entrance exam and got scores so implausible that 58,000 applicants must sit it again, the proctoring AI having lost to the test-taking AI.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to August 4, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-4-2026
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