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/BTMarquis Jul 27 '26

This might sound crazy, but they could also have them use a pen and paper to take tests.

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u/LaconicLacedaemonian Jul 27 '26

That means the professor can't use AI to grade it then. 

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u/luluhouse7 Jul 27 '26

All my exams (and homework) in college used Gradescope. Some were multiple choice or typed, but a lot were hand written and scanned. I don’t think there was OCR, but you could give the system the exam template and the system automatically separated the returned exams into questions, which meant you could go through each question across all exams in one go (which made it easier and the evaluation more consistent). I’m sure there’s OCR built in by now, probably using some form of ML.