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/RoamingBison Jul 27 '26

The truth is that they depend on the tuition money from those cheaters so it will never happen. Cheating has always been rampant in many programs but AI has made it much easier. At least in the past they had to learn teamwork to cheat their way through assignments.