- By Vikas Yadav
- Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:44 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
JE Technology Desk: AI has been in the news for its ground-breaking capabilities lately. From doing homework to passing exams, it can accomplish several tasks. And this time, the emerging technology is making headlines for helping police arrest fraudulent candidates in exam centres in Uttar Pradesh. Recently, AI helped the UP Police to nab 87 cheats and dummy candidates who sat in place for actual candidates in a government exam in the state, PTI, citing officials reported.
According to the news agency, an advanced AI-based face detection software was used to arrest these suspected cheats across examination centres in the state. A majority (11) of the arrested suspects were from Lucknow, and 12 were from Gautam Buddh Nagar and Ghaziabad districts.
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Termed 'solvers', these candidates gave the exam in place of the candidates who fill the form and undertook unfair means to pass the exam for the recruitment of Village Development Officer (Gram Vikas Adhikari). The exam conducting body was the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UPSSSC) on Tuesday, PTI added.
Close monitoring and live streaming of the exam centres across the state was undertaken at the UPSSSC level, said a senior police official. With the use of an advanced Artificial Intelligence-based face identification system, technology deployment by the exam conducting body, support of the Special Task Force (STF), and local police, a female and 86 other dummy candidates were nabbed, the officer added.
Besides the above-stated locations, the candidates were arrested from Banda, Varanasi, Aligarh, Kanpur, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Mirzapur, Azamgarh, Jhansi, Agra and Basti. Prayagraj, Bareilly, Prayagraj, Meerut and Moradabad witnessed one arrest each. The police added legal action is underway in all such cases, that include FIR on charges of using unfair means, cheating and forgery during state public examinations, PTI reported.