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/dre9889 Jul 27 '26

Hard disagree with you. Failing the class along with not actually learning anything is punishment enough. They don’t need to be expelled on top.

The genie is out of the lamp. AI is never going away, and people really do need to be learning how to use it if they want to survive in tomorrow’s economy.

What needs to change is the nature of instruction and assignments. If the assignment changes from a take-home paper to an in-class discussion where no laptops or phones are allowed to assist you, then you are creating a situation where the kids actually have to learn before they have stepped into the room for the assignment.

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u/hotpajamas Jul 27 '26

This but it didn’t start with AI.

As soon as wikipedia existed the genie game was over. You can’t charge people thousands of dollars for information that is freely available on the internet so it was only a matter of time yet education didn’t reform. It’s the same it’s ever been as if technology has been on pause for 100 years.

Now it’s just worse because not only can you find any information you want online, you can watch a youtuber teach it more efficiently for free, you can buy a used textbook and have it delivered for pennie’s, and all without paying tuition or paying for bullshit like meal plans and parking decals.

Now there’s also AI and education is still doing this stone age shit like the technology is going to go away and students will just honor code their way through life crippling debt and fees. It’s absurd.