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ChatGPT Helps Students Feign ADHD: An Analogue Study on AI-Assisted Coaching

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12207-025-09538-7
22•paulpauper•3h ago

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Centigonal•1h ago
This is not an observational study. A better title for this paper would be "ChatGPT Could Help Students Feign ADHD." ChatGPT could also help me cook meth, perform social engineering attacks, or pirate NYT articles.
CravingLogic•56m ago
Publications like this really undermine and sour academia. It's the same thing that happened to journalism.
sepositus•59m ago
I'm constantly having to fight for my child's ADHD meds (as in, they are never available at any pharmacies around me). It's been such a nightmare ever since they were diagnosed. To know people can go around faking it for, presumably, free access to Adderall is even more frustrating.
pfannkuchen•15m ago
Yeah it’s pretty weird. What is the production constraint they are hitting? Why can’t they keep up with demand? It’s not a new drug, you’d think amphetamine production would be easy by now. Curious if anyone knows what’s up with that.
zoklet-enjoyer•12m ago
Everyone who wants it should have access. There's no reason production should be limited to the point you're having trouble accessing it. Illicit amphetamine has been cheap and readily available for decades.
PorterBHall•57m ago
I read only as far as the abstract. What would motivate an adult to feign ADHD symptoms? Is it access to prescription drugs? Disability benefits?
camcil•52m ago
Adderall, I would presume.
aianus•44m ago
Standardized test accommodations as well, maybe?
wagwang•43m ago
Aren't there online doctors where you just respond yes to 10 questions and get adderall in the mail.
magpir•35m ago
Why do you need ChatGPT to feign ADHD? You can simply read the diagnostic criteria for ADHD and just lie.

This is true for pretty much anything else like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder etc.

Imnimo•24m ago
I think the study is saying that if you just read the diagnostic criteria, you tend to over-report symptoms and can be detected as likely faking, and that happens less with the ChatGPT-generated guide (although the effect seems to be of questionable magnitude).

>Our findings demonstrated that the AI-coached simulation group consistently moderated their symptom overreporting and cognitive underperformance compared to the symptom-coached group, as evidenced by group effects in mostly small to medium size (though nonsignificant in underpowered Bonferroni-corrected pairwise comparisons). This effect is also reflected in lower sensitivity rates for detecting individuals in the AI-coached simulation group compared to the symptom-coached group.

Here "symptom-coached group" is the group that was just given a handout of the diagnostic criteria.

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