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/redthrull Jul 27 '26

What makes you think they actually care whether the students learn anything or not? It's all about the money at this point. Students pay, they receive a diploma. The End.

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u/HateWinslet Jul 27 '26

Infuriating considering that when I was in college 20 years ago if you did not paraphrase something well enough (or if you just accidentally used a sentence that could be found online), you had a university court date to go before a tribunal and prove that you didn’t plagiarize - and people absolute were occasionally expelled for it.