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/alebotson Jul 27 '26

I had a professor that was reading verbatim from penguin's concise history it the Roman empire. I figured this out because I was having trouble paying attention to his extremely dry and boring lectures, and wanted to get a book that helped me study. Reading the first chapter started to feel really familiar.

Needless to say, using that to write my papers worked really well.

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u/jugoinganonymous Jul 27 '26

I also had a professor reading verbatim a huge book she told us not to read « because it has a lot of mistakes it’s insane ». Her whole powerpoints were the book’s illustrations, and she actually made us write exactly what she said. She actually said « only what I say is right, books don’t know shit ». The AUDACITY of this bitch. I hate her and I hate that I’m going to see her again for the next 2 years.

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u/knightofni451 Jul 27 '26

Report her for plagiarism!

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u/jugoinganonymous Jul 27 '26

I actually looked up the main author of the book and found his email a few months back, I hate her so much I’m actually considering reporting her to him.

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u/sojayn Jul 27 '26

Please do and post in pettyrevenge or maliciouscompliance or somewhere like that! I live for that shit 

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u/cocacola999 Jul 27 '26

Ha, same. Guy seemed to only understand vibatum of the book 

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '26

Was your professor a ghost by chance?

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u/alebotson Aug 04 '26

Unfortunately not