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/BTMarquis Jul 27 '26

This might sound crazy, but they could also have them use a pen and paper to take tests.

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u/dirty_cuban Jul 27 '26

I mean sure but if bank employees are stealing money by slipping bills into their pockets, the answer isn’t to mandate clothing without pockets. The answer is to fire the thieves.

Mandating pen and paper doesn’t change the fact that you have academically dishonest students who surely will cheat in other ways.

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u/Revadarius Jul 27 '26

But when your bank as a high turnover rate it looks bad on the outside, and also why are all these tellers stealing so much? What's the bigger issue here causing this?

I get your analogy, but it wasn't a good one for this problem. You start canning students then people would rather not gamble and thousands in debt and instead just forego education. Or it'll encourage worse way to chest. Or both.

Pen and paper solution is the best. More tests in person, less papers or assignments. They need to show they know that knowledge on their own. It's the only effective method.

And for thesis and larger assignments they need to be recorded. Though those should be held for Masters and PhD.