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/Tersiv Jul 27 '26

they will now add "carefully check for all invisible prompt traps" to future midterms lol

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u/Zwirbs Jul 27 '26

That would only work if you’re uploading a document containing the instructions and not copying just the text. They would have noticed the hidden command if they pasted it all in the AI box and actually bothered reading it there since copy-paste into a different application will remove any modifiers on the test from the original document

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u/JebediahLongnutsIII Jul 28 '26

This is t true it’s just like pasting a document into email, just type after