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/agentdcf Jul 27 '26

What I see are universities saying, very quietly, that chatbots present "concerns" for academic dishonesty and maybe students should speak to their instructors if they have questions.

At the same time, these same universities are blaring as loudly as possible that they are "AI Ready" and "Leading in AI Innovation," while they provide paid subscriptions to chatbots for students and push instructors to integrate into curricula. The IT admins--and I have seen this with my own eyes--literally laughed at professors who said students shouldn't be using chatbots for classwork (or anything else).

At an institutional level, academia has been essentially captured by the big tech companies.