Hello and welcome. Today we’re looking at China’s latest move to keep its nationwide college entrance exams fair. From June 7th to the 10th, more than 13.3 million students will sit the grueling multi-day gaokao tests, the only route to secure a university spot. To prevent cheating, several Chinese AI companies have temporarily disabled key features of their chatbots. Alibaba’s Qwen and ByteDance’s Doubao have stopped picture-recognition responses to test questions, while Tencent’s Yuanbao and Moonshot’s Kimi have suspended photo-recognition entirely during exam hours. When asked why, both Yuanbao and Kimi replied that functions were disabled “to ensure the fairness of the college entrance examinations.” Even DeepSeek, the AI tool that went viral earlier this year, is blocking services during specific hours “to ensure fairness in the college entrance examination.” With phones and laptops already banned during the gaokao, this extra layer of protection aims to keep the competition based on hard work and knowledge—nothing more. Thanks for listening.
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