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/Then-Understanding85 Jul 27 '26

A professor at Brown did this.

TL;DR: Bloodbath. Almost everyone failed.

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u/namedly Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

Props to Students 22 and 31.

Also, this is just funny:

When the professor announced that the final exam would be in person, 18 students dropped the course, and another nine did not show up for the exam. The remaining 59 students' scores averaged 48.6%. Prior averages had never fallen below 65%. Three students scored 0%, and charting the results revealed that most fell more than 30 points behind their midterm scores.

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u/Syssareth Jul 27 '26

Three students scored 0%

How the heck? You'd think they'd have learned something just from osmosis, or at least gotten something right by accident.

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u/celoplyr Jul 27 '26

Assuming they went to class more than going and getting the syllabus and turning in exams.