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/SinibusUSG Jul 27 '26

Frankly if universities want to actually stop this they have to treat it like the academic dishonesty it is and start expelling people.

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u/soapinthepeehole Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

My wife occasionally teaches an art history class and she’s gone back to hand written exams in blue books.

Even with that she caught a kid photographing the slides and transcribing AI answers into the blue book.