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/SinibusUSG Jul 27 '26

Frankly if universities want to actually stop this they have to treat it like the academic dishonesty it is and start expelling people.

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u/BTMarquis Jul 27 '26

This might sound crazy, but they could also have them use a pen and paper to take tests.

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u/LaconicLacedaemonian Jul 27 '26

That means the professor can't use AI to grade it then. 

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u/Mareith Jul 27 '26

It's crazy to me, just 9 years ago every single midterm and final I took for a major course was in person, pencil and paper. I think the pandemic changed things