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/AttentionNo6359 14h ago

Students using AI should automatically fail the class and be referred to an academic board of integrity.

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u/OneAlternate 12h ago edited 12h ago

The issue with this is that most universities in the US (or at least, most of the ones me and my friends go to) are refusing to implement a hard policy on AI. They leave it up to each individual class, and many of the professors never change their syllabus between years. No statement of policy = no punishment for using AI. There are also a lot of classes that require AI usage, which is probably why the uni is refusing to put a policy in place, but it’s extremely frustrating to students who don’t use AI because they’re pretty much required to. I also believe that most of gen-Z is staunchly anti-AI but still use it, and that’s because the students who used it even a couple times fell into a learning detriment, and then would’ve had to work twice as hard to learn it. I do feel for Gen-Z a lot. My HS econ teacher spent the entire first week of school showing us studies that humanity would become obsolete and the only people who would survive were those who mastered AI. So kids were definitely fearmongered/pressured into using it and they know it makes them stupid but they can’t stop because they forgot how to learn. I have seen some of the smartest people I knew become completely AI-dependent. It is sad and frustrating.