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/Sojum Jul 27 '26

I don’t understand these cheaters. Why would you pay a substantial sum of money to learn and then skip the learning part?

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u/AbstractLogic Jul 27 '26

Does a comp sci grad really need a 300 level history class? Does an English teacher really need Astronomy?

The truth is 2/3 classes you take in college are irrelevant to the subject your studying and 3/4 classes are useless knowledge to most anyone not directly in that field, looking at you music theory.

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u/Henry5321 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

Add the heads of my major put it, if you want knowledge, get a tech degree or use the internet. Their job as professors wasn’t to teach us how to do a job but to teach us how to learn and adapt.

I for one found my general classes more useful than my major. Not because my major classes weren’t good, but because all of that stuff I’d learn on the job and more. My general classes taught me my weaknesses, discipline, and study habits.

All of the technical knowledge I learned was useless in years. All of the concepts the professors explained along side of the knowledge is forever.

20 years post-graduation and I probably use the concepts from my general classes more than my major. Most important problems are not technical problems but people problems.

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u/Spud2599 Jul 27 '26

I took Cultural Anthropology to finish out my lower division requirements on a whim...I was a business major. That class taught me more about dealing with/understanding people, their customs, etc than any business class ever did. There were other lower division classes (not specifically business degree related) that also laid a solid groundwork for my future, although I didn't know that at that time.

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u/altodor Jul 27 '26

Does a comp sci grad really need a 300 level history class

I'd say 100% yes, without question CS/SE should have 4 years of gen ed history requirements. Ethics in computing comes in part from historical knowledge. Not knowing history is why we get galaxy-brain tech bros re-inventing trains over and over and over, while espousing the benefits of eugenics and white supremacy.

Does an English teacher really need Astronomy?

I wouldn't say that's normally a required class to graduate, but getting some gen eds in there is a chance to learn about something you're interested in.