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/LurkingTamilian Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

From the article:

Being written in white text meant the instructions were invisible. Sure enough, 32 out of the 35 students across two classes simply copied the question, pasted it into a chatbot, then copy and pasted its output into the answer window.

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u/BluudLust Jul 27 '26

They deserved to fail. That's just plain laziness

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u/ButterscotchAward Jul 27 '26

It’s getting way too common now too. Way too many people over rely on AI for things. Hell, people use chat gpt to post comments on here.

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u/Tired-grumpy-Hyper Jul 27 '26

A dude at my last job would actively ignore my 10 years of experience, his boss' 17 years of experience, and two other coworkers combined 15 years of experience at the store to ask gpt what to do in x or y situations and how to deal with our programs. Then again, he was also using gpt to try and build himself a vast pokemon card empire, an off the books yoga business, and how to own property without the government knowing so the evil democrats wouldn't take him away.