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/Glittering-Fuel-5055 Jul 27 '26

“the students that were caught cheating failed this portion of the exam”

No

When I was in college, if you got caught cheating, you were thrown out of the entire class and if you got caught cheating again, you were thrown out of the entire fucking school

You make it soft this is what you get

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u/optionstrategy Jul 27 '26

I was accused of cheating by a teaching assistant some long time ago in college.

I wore a baseball cap in a large classroom and dis not cheat at all since I loved the class and the teacher. Scored 88, but come the next class the professor called me to his office and asked me to retake the exam. The same exact questions. I scored 95 the second time in half the time.

The professor apologized all red faced and I never saw that ta proctor another exam again.

Later the professor told me that because of my other grades the administration told him to offer an impromptu retake, and I would have been expelled if I failed the retake.

They were tough back then.