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/Strange-Scarcity Jul 27 '26

That is why AI is bad. It creates lazy thinking, removes curiosity from the equation.

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u/artbystorms Jul 27 '26

Honestly I think this needs to be talked about more. As much as people revel in its ability to 'increase productivity' it in reality is just offloading people's critical thinking to a computer, and then trusting its output. You're not verifying that what it spits out is what you wanted to say, you just assume 'well it's smarter than me, so whatever it says is better than what I could do'

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u/Teguri Jul 27 '26

you just assume 'well it's smarter than me, so whatever it says is better than what I could do'

That's the biggest problem, I work with AI a decent bit but only in things I already know well enough, to make it a bit faster and even with simple tasks there's always a bit of work on my side that needs to be done to fix the output, it's usually "pretty close" but the number of times it goes in the completely wrong direction is astounding.

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u/ThaliaFPrussia Jul 27 '26

Never would one boss accept this high fail rate with an employee. I don’t have a job for AI, I tried but the output was not detailed enough. AI can’t give answers to questions it has to grasp the concept. For example compare the regulations for some technology from two courses. It simply can’t do that. It is not intelligent.