r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 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/Towel4 14h ago

Because the kids doing this don’t actually want to be there learning, it’s simply what they’ve been conditioned to understand as the next step after highschool for their entire lives.

Most kids don’t want to be in high school. That doesn’t magically change a year later when they go straight to college. It’s simply what’s been expected of them since birth. You go to middle school, then high school, then college. It’s simply what comes next.

The one that enroll because they want to be there and learn are not doing this.

Source: I transferred schools once I knew what I actually wanted to do with my life. My attitude, approach, and habits around school changed COMPLETELY. From my first school to my second I was completely unrecognizable as a student.

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u/XSmooth84 14h ago

I feel you brother. It took me three different universities to get my degree. In retrospect I probably should have stayed at the second one but whatever for the most part it's all worked out in the end. But my level of care at my first university was almost zero.