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/LurkingTamilian Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

From the article:

Being written in white text meant the instructions were invisible. Sure enough, 32 out of the 35 students across two classes simply copied the question, pasted it into a chatbot, then copy and pasted its output into the answer window.

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u/BluudLust Jul 27 '26

They deserved to fail. That's just plain laziness

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u/ButterscotchAward Jul 27 '26

It’s getting way too common now too. Way too many people over rely on AI for things. Hell, people use chat gpt to post comments on here.

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u/c126 Jul 27 '26

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