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/dmazzoni Jul 27 '26

They’re devaluing education and they should care about that.

When I’m looking at a resume, a college degree from certain schools used to mean something.

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u/porktorque44 Jul 27 '26

“They” as in administrators, are comprised of the same BMAs destroying every institution. Their skills are seen as transferable to the ones running other industries so they will have new jobs waiting for them in a new industry after destroying this one.

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u/dmazzoni Jul 27 '26

That may be true about administrators, but college professors wield a lot of power. If they collectively decide to crack down on cheating there's nothing administration can do about it.

That's who I'm disappointed in.

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u/porktorque44 Jul 28 '26

I can’t speak to how this applies in this situation or how pervasive this is at the moment but there has also been an increasing shift towards non-tenured adjunct professors who can be easily removed. But you are right that professors, tenured or otherwise, should be throwing their weight around here.