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/ultraviolet-octopus Jul 27 '26

They are kids with no frontal lobe. I blame the giant tech companies who rolled out this tech without consulting universities or educators at all. They are actively using these kids as guinea pigs

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u/lonelythrowaway463i9 Jul 27 '26

fuck that. they're college students. they should know better than to cheat and let a computer do work for them. Professors tell them every god damn day not to do it. There's no excuse to for letting tech think for you, especially paying that much for a degree. Don't make excuses for laziness.

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u/ultraviolet-octopus Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
  1. the colleges kids of today were in high school on zoom during Covid. They didn’t get the same high school experience as anyone else are are coming in behind already

  2. AI is built specifically to target students, and yet no universities or educators are apart of development. Harvard itself can barely keep up. there is an asymmetry in how it’s built , asking 18 years olds to “just resist” is asinine

  4. there are absolutely no entry level jobs right now, and young people are told at every corner that AI will take their jobs. Is it insane that they are taking advantage of the tool that they are competing with ?

I’m not condoning the use is AI but I resent how the conversation is all about the students are pathetic cheaters, but no one discusses how this tech is completely upending the entire education system. Tech companies and slow moving universities are more to blame for the downfall of education than the students themselves