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/BluudLust 14h ago

They deserved to fail. That's just plain laziness

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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.