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/DorkusMalorkuss Jul 27 '26

This isn't really true. I'm a college counselor at a high school and, imo, it's the "middle class" that are the most fucked. If you're poor enough - like I was - then you typically get a significant amount of financial aid to make college attendance reasonable and realistic, at a public university. If you're rich, then it's a non issue anyways. I would say that it's families that make about 80-200k that are the most screwed. They make enough to love day to day, but adding in a 50,000 bill for four years isn't realistic and their income is typically too high to receive enough financial aid to cover costs.

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u/Portland Jul 27 '26

If a family can’t afford $200k college tuition, then why are those kids being pushed into expensive private / out of state schools?

Annual tuition at state schools is around $12k per year including books, fees, etc. That’s before any merit or needs based financial aid. Treating undergrad as a lifestyle is a significant part of the problem, and contributes to the massive student debt.

Why does the American system push out of state and private education so heavily?

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u/koghrun Jul 27 '26

That national annual in state tuition number is skewed by mid-western states with low populations not charging much for in state students. On the coasts where 70% of the US population lives, average in state tuition is $20-30k per year with more fees added for room and food and books. Even then the mean with the cheap states included was just shy of $14k, not 12K.

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u/Portland Jul 27 '26

Your comment is exactly my point tho! Why is living on campus the norm? Why does US society push 18 year olds to spend exorbitant sums on education lifestyle?

People should go to their local state uni, state college, or community college. It literally doesn’t matter where they take freshman & sophomore coursework, for the vast majority of students.

In-state tuition at California schools is about $10k per year for tuition, fees, and books. Here’s one example: https://sacd.sdsu.edu/financial-aid/financial-aid/eligibility/cost-of-attendance/cost-of-attendance-tables/undergraduate-california-resident

Even here you see the university financial machine at play where it lists “$9,352” as the cost of housing for living with parents… as if that’s not already a sunken cost of rent/mortgage, FFS!

Tuition at PSU in Oregon is ~$11k for tuition, books and fees. Western Washington is less than $10k.

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u/ditheca Jul 27 '26

There are cheap state-subsidized schools like Utah Tech and SUU where tuition is under $4k/semester. They also give very generous scholarships to anyone with a half decent high school GPA.

If you just want "a degree" and not a fancy degree from a top-tier school, it can be very affordable.