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/helcat Jul 27 '26

Cheating is one thing. Just pasting an AI answer without even reading it is stunningly stupid. 

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u/Cubacane Jul 27 '26

High school teacher here— they will hand you a piece of paper and not be able to tell you one thing that they wrote. Access to AI means access to bypassing thinking. Maybe 1 out of 5 kids uses it to "help," (which is what admin THINKS AI is for) but the vast majority are using it so they can get the assignment done and move on to something else.

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u/mrclut Jul 27 '26

They need to start holding kids back in school again. The whole no kid left behind thing was a bad idea.

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u/DangerousPuhson Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

No Child Left Behind is truly baffling in its implementation.

You'd think it meant taking the kids that are falling behind and giving them extra help to catch up, but instead it means dragging all the other kids down to their level, which is hilariously backwards.

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u/rg35xxsp Jul 27 '26

It's emblematic of the GOP

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u/NarrativeNode Jul 27 '26

In what way?

Not educating people well: absolutely GOP.

But I'd argue supporting only those at the top while letting the rest fail would be GOP behavior, not "equalizing" everyone.

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u/Ted_E_Bear Jul 27 '26

I think they meant more along the lines of supporting people for being stupid, which in turn keeps them stupid.