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A student used AI to cheat his way through an entire Amazon interview. Then recorded himself doing it. Then posted the video online. Amazon saw it. Called Columbia University. Threatened to stop hiring from the school entirely unless they expelled him. Columbia expelled him. He posted about the expulsion...

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