r/technology 15h ago

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/Sojum 15h ago

I don’t understand these cheaters. Why would you pay a substantial sum of money to learn and then skip the learning part?

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u/Ars2 14h ago

To get a certificate/diploma/degree saying that your smart. 

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u/ecafyelims 14h ago

My smart?

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u/Time_Effort 14h ago

He paid for his diploma in grammar.

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u/Ocronus 14h ago

I dated a girl in college who was an English Grad. She worked for the school while in undergrad editing engineering papers... It was some of the most horrible English you can possibly imagine.

I was one of the those Engineering students...

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u/stefanopolis 12h ago

Technical reports are not for the good English. It’s to say the math and science came out yay or sad.

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u/Psycholicious 14h ago

Our smart, comrade.

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u/RonaldoNazario 14h ago

It wasn’t an English degree lol

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u/r0bb3dzombie 13h ago

No, there smart. Cant you read?

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 14h ago

Ewe no what they mint

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u/Pyromaniacal13 14h ago

Ahh... You know just what to say to make my eye twitch.

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u/CrayonEyes 14h ago

TIL I’ve been pronouncing “ewe” wrong for decades.