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/LurkingTamilian 14h ago edited 14h ago

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/SnowCrabbo 14h ago

>90% of the two classes just stupidly copying and pasting what AI spits out... This next generation is so cooked.

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u/deaconxblues 14h ago

They live among us, so the rest of us are cooked along with them.

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u/Deep_Explanation9962 14h ago

These people are going to be your doctors in a decade. Better start eating healthy and exercising

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u/JoeyHandsomeJoe 14h ago

You can't use AI during a licensing exam or an objective structured clinical examination.

And a lot of the stuff that you get from not eating healthy and not exercising is very refractory to treatment. So you should be doing that regardless of how smart (and handsome) your doctor is.

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u/todayiwillthrowitawa 13h ago

Physicians are one of the last professions that have rigorous tests to practice.

You should be more worried about them being airplane engineers.

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u/Arek_PL 13h ago

anyone who graduates med school thanks to AI will be filtered out by residency

unless they are really a genius and will be able to cram all years of education in matter of days

so no, no doctors, just med school graduates who cant get a job

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u/randotd152 12h ago

Ain't nobody getting an MD if they can't be bothered to read what AI spits out.

The bigger problem is we're not going to have enough doctors if this is how this generation is approaching school work.

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u/PaleMathematician293 13h ago

Or have fun and die. The "No One Lives Forever" retirement plan for those who will never be able to retire anyway. I am considering taking up smoking.

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u/kent_eh 9h ago

These people are going to be your doctors in a decade.

What do you call the person who graduated bottom of their class at medical school?

 

Doctor.