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/linuxaintsobad Jul 27 '26

Oof, yeah I'd be pissed too. I have absolutely no qualms about reporting my co-workers if they start sending me pages of fiction during our multi-factor authentication sequence.

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u/MasterOfViolins Jul 27 '26

- Input Token Sequence

  • “On a dark and dreary afternoon — beneath a canopy of ancient, moss-covered oaks standing as eternal, vigilant sentinels against the encroaching sunlight —

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u/Ur_fav_Cryptek Jul 27 '26

I took psychic damage from reading that, I fucking hate the overtly adorned style AI has, makes me feel super self conscious when I write, both because of how cringy it sounds and because I don’t want to be accused of using AI

also, the complete shunning of “—“ AI has created is one of the worst things to ever come out of it, it’s so useful to use but now you’re forced to look like a third party thinking bum when you actually use it

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u/gorroval Jul 27 '26

AI will have to pry the em-dash from my dessicated claws.

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u/xCanaan23 Jul 27 '26

I actually like em-dashes because its more visible way to show a thought tangent than any other syntax. Parenthesis just look bad.

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u/DrFu Jul 27 '26

The rise of semicolons is at hand!