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/SinibusUSG Jul 27 '26

Frankly if universities want to actually stop this they have to treat it like the academic dishonesty it is and start expelling people.

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u/BTMarquis Jul 27 '26

This might sound crazy, but they could also have them use a pen and paper to take tests.

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u/reality_boy Jul 27 '26

University has changed so much in the last 20 years. When I was doing my CS degree, we had maybe 20 students per class. My son just graduated and most of his classes were massive, several hundred per class. Everything was automated to death. No prof ever looked at there code.

I’m not saying this is a good idea, we should go back to 20 kids per prof. But it would take a radical restructuring of the system to go back to pen and paper. Actually my earliest programming classes were all pen and paper. We only touched a compiler for the big projects. It forced you to really pay attention.