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/fantasy-capsule Jul 27 '26

That is not going to work. Universities are a business and they need the students to collect tuition fees and get grant money. They can't do that when they're expelling the majority of the student body because clearly the majority of them use AI. What universities ought to do to maintain academic integrity is bring back in-person pen and paper exams. For academic papers, have them submit drafts at various points and real time typing. It's inconvenient but so was everything else before AI and the internet.

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u/muusca Jul 27 '26

At a certain point, if this continues, an academic degree will become so devalued to the point of worthlessness. It’ll take a while to catch up, but if we all accept that college students are using AI to earn their degree, why would employers care whether you have one or not? It’s dumb from their business’s perspective to ignore this.