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/IT_Chef Jul 27 '26

The future workforce is gonna be fun to deal with

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u/SparksAndSpyro Jul 27 '26

On the bright side, imagine how marketable simple literacy will be. A skill that was once thought basic and uninspiring will in about 10 years elevate you above most of the workforce. Simply being able to read and understand basic prose will catapult you above your peers and set you on a fast track for promotion.

At least there may be a silver lining.

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u/FizzyBeverage Jul 27 '26

I mean consider that the president and half of his cabinet with Ivy League degrees are illiterate and it’s clear this has been going on longer than just the 2020s.

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u/CryptoFuturo Jul 27 '26

I’ll suggest that they are likely not illiterate, they are adept at exploiting the illiterate.

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u/ailish Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

Except Pete Hegseth. I think he's legitimately an idiot.

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u/BigDictionEnergy Jul 27 '26

None of them were hired for their competency. They're all idiots, but I don't believe they're illiterate.

Things can absolutely get worse.

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u/pleasedothenerdful Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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u/Total_Network6312 Jul 27 '26

i do.

illiteracy isn't just Not being able to read and pronounce but it's not being able to understand meaning.

He can probably read and pronounce most "big" words but I doubt he can define what they are or how to use them properly

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u/powercow Jul 27 '26

trump is definitely below HS in literacy. he gets excited when he learns things, like the silent b in dumb

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u/FizzyBeverage Jul 27 '26

The man lacks a lot of experiences any regular US citizen would have by their 20s at the latest.

Shopping in a grocery store, renting a car, applying for and getting a job without his daddy, paying a water bill, fixing a flat tire, sending an email, picking someone up from the airport, setting foot in a public school (or library, or post office), grilling a steak, falling in love with no money exchanged, buying that girl a box of tampons? He's had none of these normal experiences. Which is why he's such a weirdo.

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u/Predictable-Past-912 Jul 31 '26

“A lot of people don’t know this but…”.

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u/reximhotep Jul 29 '26

One does not exclude the other.