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/Odexios Jul 27 '26

Nope. Your AI generated answers will be good, most (or some, depending on the domain) of the time, no matter whether you know the underlying concepts. Crucially, if you don't understand the concepts, you won't be able to understand when what an LLM has generated is good, and when it isn't, which means they you won't be able to use an AI to get reliably good answer.

This is the fundamental skill you need to have when using an AI; and, as you can imagine, designing a test around this is a very hard task.