GenAI Agent Imposters: A Cautionary Tale

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?