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/KellyAnn3106 Jul 27 '26

Like in the ancient days when I was in college. We had exam blue books for handwritten exams and scantron sheets for multiple choice exams.

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u/BurnieTrogdor Jul 27 '26

Ugh, I hated those blue books. The weakness of my endurance in handwriting was always a problem. My hand is cramping just thinking about them. Also, my poor teachers that had to read my handwriting.

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u/KellyAnn3106 Jul 27 '26

Mine always started with perfect bubbly girl writing and then deteriorated into serial killer scrawl as I started running out of time.

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u/Scavenger53 Jul 27 '26

the blue books are still there, they cost 25cents and i have like 4 leftover in my bag lol

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u/TimSylvester_ Jul 27 '26

And you had to buy them from the bookstore where they were wildly overpriced.

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u/lumpboysupreme Jul 27 '26

What about paper writing?

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u/lumpboysupreme Jul 27 '26

Papers don’t need to be 20+ pages to demonstrate mastery of a topic.

That really depends on the topic. I’ve taken blue book exams before, they’re not the same thing as a full and researched paper.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

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u/lumpboysupreme Jul 27 '26

Ehhhh, not necessarily, a lot of more liberal arts fields don’t, by simple necessity of time, have a fully standardized set of course material, and require research on the part of the student.

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u/lumpboysupreme Jul 27 '26

before even getting to begin a thesis or dissertation

But that’s the point right? You’re looking to reverse that process, making the researched and independent thing a minor part of a course ultimately decided mainly by a more standardized test. I don’t think that’s the dynamic they want there.

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u/lumpboysupreme Jul 27 '26

It is already the standard that you must pass these “lesser” exams in order to pass your program

But you pass them first, they’re a prerequisite to demonstrate a sufficient understanding of the base material to then make more meaningful insights on, reversing that process is nonsensical, just like how you have to pass first grade to get into high school, but you wouldn’t put first grade material as high school finals.

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