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/ThrowRA-singlern Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

I work at a university and used this white text technique. My colleagues were more mad at me than the students because they said I set a trap in bad faith. I felt guilty but at the end of the day what I did was ethically shady but what the students did was clearly wrong.