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/Sasselhoff Jul 27 '26

Rampant cheating was already an issue at many universities, very often with the international students (was a real problem at my university with the Chinese students, and then I lived in China for most of a decade and learned why, haha).

But those students usually pay "full board" to the school, and the school just let's them do whatever they want to do because they're paying out the ass for their degree (most students get some kind of assistance, but the international ones get bupkis).

So yeah, they absolutely need to start expelling people. How the universities don't understand such things drastically devalue their degrees is beyond me.