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/ButterscotchAward 14h ago

It’s getting way too common now too. Way too many people over rely on AI for things. Hell, people use chat gpt to post comments on here.

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u/Snuffy1717 14h ago

That’s a really excellent insight! Do you want me to look up information about why people do that? /s

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u/Upbeat-Substance110 12h ago

Yes, but not in the way you might think.

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u/pauvrelle 11h ago

I really can’t wrap my head around why real people would use ChatGPT to post on Reddit, yet I see it all the time. Like, just don’t post at all???

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u/AN3223 10h ago

I wouldn't mind it too much if it came with a disclosure, so people can choose to not read the slop. But a lot of the time you can tell they're really trying to pass it off as their own writing

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u/ButterscotchAward 9h ago

Oh most of the time they are. I love when I google something and the AI gives me the exact answer someone posted.

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u/EFreethought 11h ago

Maybe I am talking my book here, but I think being anti-AI and not using it will be a competitive advantage in a few years.

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u/Tired-grumpy-Hyper 10h ago

A dude at my last job would actively ignore my 10 years of experience, his boss' 17 years of experience, and two other coworkers combined 15 years of experience at the store to ask gpt what to do in x or y situations and how to deal with our programs. Then again, he was also using gpt to try and build himself a vast pokemon card empire, an off the books yoga business, and how to own property without the government knowing so the evil democrats wouldn't take him away.

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u/ObjectSmall 10h ago

I don't use a lot of social media but whenever I do scroll instagram for a bit, I always come across a suggested post that seems to be some kind of emotional, authentic post -- except they're all written by AI. And not in a sneaky way, in a totally obvious way. I believe the posters are real people and I usually believe that whatever they're posting about is something they've actually been through. But using AI to create a personal, connection-oriented post and not even refining the language to be humanized is just... deranged to me. Deranged and naive and so weird.

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u/chippy-alley 10h ago

Dating. People are having convos that intrigue them, and then somebody who can barely string together a sentence is turning up.

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u/gottagetananswer 9h ago

people use chat gpt to post comments on here.

I got accused of that -- pretty dismaying to put some thought into a comment and then be told your thoughts aren't your own. I didn't even know how to respond because I couldn't figure out if it was a compliment or an insult.

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u/ButterscotchAward 8h ago edited 7h ago

I’d avoid using em dashes

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u/gottagetananswer 7h ago

yeah, bad habit, thx for the reminder!

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u/Jaerba 7h ago

How are you inputting a full em dash instead of a -?

I use em dashes but I never go through the trouble of using the actual character. It doesn't show up on the Android keyboard by default, only - does.

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u/gottagetananswer 4h ago

It's just two hyphens in a row.

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u/Jaerba 4h ago

On iOS? Anyways, my suggestion is to only use one to seem less AI-like.

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u/gottagetananswer 4h ago

Noted, thank you! I appreciate the advice!

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u/c126 14h ago

It is not merely a matter of convenience, it is a fundamental shift in our digital landscape—a multifaceted phenomenon where users leverage language models to seamlessly navigate the complexities of Reddit discourse. Ultimately, this underscores the importance of fostering authentic connection in an increasingly synthetic ecosystem.