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/markshure Jul 27 '26

I wonder if the 3 students who didn't get caught really wrote their paper or did they just notice the nonsense.

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u/Ocronus Jul 27 '26

Its not hard to use AI and get away with it. You just have to proof read and edit. Sooo I'd say a non-zero chance they just didn't get caught.

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u/Samanthacino Jul 27 '26

Which is a lesson in and of itself. If you’re going to use AI, don’t be so goddam sloppy with it.

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u/HumanPea1140 Jul 27 '26

That's basically what one of my teachers said last semester... that he realizes that he can't stop us from using it, but asked that we at least do the bare minimum and not just copy+paste the first response it gives us.

But then I'd see people being extremely blatant and copy+pasting AI responses into our discussion board posts with the bullet points, emojies and all.

I hope he docked points for it.