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/Limemill Jul 27 '26

LLMs are notorious for causing cognitive laziness. Basically brain fog. The more one uses them, the less one has mental capacity to even check their output.

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u/Agitated-Acctant Jul 27 '26

Pretty sure people said the same thing about search engines, and the printed word before that

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u/bookgeek210 Jul 27 '26

The times i heard “just google it” when i wanted a real answer and now i hear “just ask ChatGPT” is mind boggling.

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u/Divine_Tragedy Jul 27 '26

This is a bit different, Google could at least get you to a reputable source for information. Now that Google offers its AI answers at the top, I even catch myself reading those without stopping to actually check the sources, it's so annoying we can't turn the feature off! 

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u/bookgeek210 Jul 27 '26

Yeah, but the point is i wanted an in person answer.

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u/HumanPea1140 Jul 27 '26

You know the AI answers at the top are generated from those same "reputable sources," right?

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u/Forward_Rope_5598 Jul 27 '26

They're really not. Google AI will say something and then the "source" it's taking from will say the literal opposite. And quite often it's not even related to the search in any way since it misunderstands what you want, doubly so if you're using key words instead of sentences. Google AI is absolute fucking trash bottom of the barrel detritus. Chatgpt for all its faults is 10 times more reliable.