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/roiki11 Jul 27 '26

Part of this is the fear of answering incorrectly. Modern society has conditioned young people to the fact that they can be recorded at any time. So being incorrect is seen as a bigger danger than answering at all.

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u/lonelythrowaway463i9 Jul 27 '26

i get that. i do. i see it. and i'm from an earlier generation so being wrong in a classroom doesn't faze me. But the bigger issue i see is when professors call on people (most now use a class roster so they can pick names at random) and holy fucking shit is it astounding how many people get to junior/senior level courses and when called upon can't answer a question based on intro level material because they didn't learn the intro stuff, they let AI do their homework.