r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Jul 27 '26

Society Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI

https://www.techspot.com/news/113243-professor-invisible-prompt-trap-catches-32-students-cheating.html
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u/TwilightVulpine Jul 27 '26

I keep wondering if part of the reason AI companies are wasting so much money on it, is for the sake of those who will go "hey ChatGPT, who should I vote for" and things on that level.

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u/ecodick Jul 27 '26

Big time. If people are handing off their critical thinking to glorified chat bots, it's such an easy/obvious way to control them

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u/Plasibeau Jul 27 '26

We are literally watching society go from: Because the Bible/God told me so... to ChatGPT told me I should...

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u/SeriousPlankton2000 Jul 27 '26

Spoiler alert: It is.

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u/jlboygenius Jul 27 '26

There will also be a LOT of 'poisoning the well' for AI scrapers. Expect reddit to have a LOT of political content, much of it aimed at getting AI to use it as a basis for a response to tell someone how to vote.

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u/kent_eh Jul 27 '26

It's guaranteed that a portion of the population will do exactly that.

And it's terrifying.

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 27 '26

is for the sake of those who will go "hey ChatGPT, who should I vote for" and things on that level.

ChatGPT, analyze my Reddit comments, determine my political leaning and tell me which way I would want to vote for which measure and why.

Read through it once. Copy it like a high school final exam answer key. Hello Travelers

I do read through it though I don't just blindly copy the answer key, in case anything stands out as sus.

I'm very sus of all things and people, but not sus enough to get diagnosed with schizophrenia.