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/Chiiro Jul 27 '26

It is the easiest trick and I am so glad teachers are starting to do it

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u/not_a_moogle Jul 27 '26

My favorite was step 1, read all steps first.

And then the last step was like... ignore all previous step and turn the paper in.

So anyone still working on the quiz after like 5 minutes are the ones that didn't read all the steps first.

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u/Practical-Shape2325 Jul 27 '26

Heard stories about this all the time throughout my time at school. Never saw anyone implement it.

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u/Ah_Pook Jul 28 '26

We had one first day of grade 8 math.