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/redthrull Jul 27 '26

What makes you think they actually care whether the students learn anything or not? It's all about the money at this point. Students pay, they receive a diploma. The End.

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u/EveryRadio Jul 27 '26

For a large number of college professors, teaching is the side gig and academic research is where they actually spend their time

Some colleges are more "research" focused than others and it varies wildely with majors, but for the colleges where research is the focus I can easily see the whole AI cheating issue only being addressed briefly when articles like this come out

Otherwise? Probably not without heavy regulations that are ACTUALLY enforced. Paper tests and exams arent a bad idea but online exams and quizzes are so convinent that it will be an uphill battle in my opinion