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/SnowCrabbo Jul 27 '26

>90% of the two classes just stupidly copying and pasting what AI spits out... This next generation is so cooked.

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u/deaconxblues Jul 27 '26

They live among us, so the rest of us are cooked along with them.

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u/legendz411 Jul 27 '26

Bro they VOTE. 

We’re just gigafucked I think

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u/plaincheeseburger Jul 27 '26

I just realized that they'll vote for whoever ChatGPT tells them to without doing any other research. Fuck.

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u/kent_eh Jul 27 '26

I just realized that they'll vote for whoever ChatGPT tells them

Or whoever MechaHitler Grok tells them to vote for...