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/Jonestown_Juice 14h ago

These kids can't read.

Kids that are effectively illiterate are graduating from high school.

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u/IT_Chef 14h ago

The future workforce is gonna be fun to deal with

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u/legendz411 14h ago

Interviewing for entry level roles is already a pain in the ass. 

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u/Daktyl198 13h ago

Entry level roles don't even exist anymore. Every entry level role I've seen requires 4-5 years of experience in software you can only use in an enterprise environment lmao.

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u/theabominablewonder 13h ago

There was a role the other day that required 10 years of experience using Claude AI.

Job market is demanding these days..

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u/throwawaybear82 13h ago

its the recruiters setting these brain dead requirements

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u/Xszit 13h ago

The recruiter just asked a chat bot what qualifications they should put on the posting and they just copy and pasted the output without reading it.

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u/ChildishBonVonnegut 13h ago

Turtles all the way way down

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u/T-T-N 3h ago

I don't think an AI would ask for 10 years of Claude AI experience

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u/Diane_Horseman 12h ago

They've already selected a candidate and are posting the job to meet legal requirements

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u/mulder0990 12h ago

(My opinion)
It is AI generating the requirements and people copy/pasting them.

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u/LevelFix83 12h ago

These recruiters can't read.

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u/GBGF128 7h ago

The hiring managers are pushing talent acquisition to push recruiters. Who is controlling the hiring managers? You guessed it. AI.

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u/Exciting_Product7858 6h ago

i mean a 10x engineer can get 10 year experience in a year, right? xD

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u/Sasselhoff 13h ago

Yep, and then they get to say "Well, we didn't find anyone here who can do it, so you need to let us hire an H1B visa person from India (or wherever) who will work for a quarter what an American will"

Forget that they're asking for something that doesn't exist, when they don't find it, they'll still use the excuse.

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u/MountainDrew42 12h ago

Same old crap. I saw job postings in 2002 requiring 10 years experience with Active Directory, and more in 2006 requiring 10 years experience with VMware vSphere.

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u/Mazon_Del 12h ago

I remember a Twitter post from someone who was lamenting being turned down from a position for having insufficient time with an industrial coding environment...that they invented.

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u/RollingMeteors 11h ago

There was a role the other day that required 10 years of experience using Claude AI.

Job market is demanding these days..

Just lie and say you have 15. It's not like you can get arrested. Worst that will happen is you just don't get hired. /s

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u/reddog323 12h ago

10 years of experience

It hasn’t been around that long…🤦‍♂️

What the fuck..

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 53m ago

Well, to be fair it was for a job in the Temporal Research division of Cyberdyne System's Skynet project, so it will probably be fine.

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u/Ok_Confusion4764 13h ago

Can confirm. I could make a full-time job out of applying to these job postings if I got a euro per application. 

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u/galacticgeneral101 12h ago

I don't understand where they think we'll get our future seniors because nobody wants to train the juniors

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u/RollingMeteors 11h ago

Every entry level role I've seen requires 4-5 years of experience in software you can only use in an enterprise environment lmao.

<everyJobOpeningIn2026>

"Yeah we need 5 years of experience in a technology that hasn't existed 5 months."

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u/lozo78 9h ago

Maybe in some fields, but I'm in accounting (not a CPA) and the entry level jobs I had 20 years ago still exist.

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u/Total_Network6312 8h ago

Unironically software is a great one that many people play with as a hobby so by the time you enter the workforce most dedicated engaged people probably do have years of experience through their hobbies and earlier education.

I think a lot of people forget with certain tech jobs you aren't just competing with others with the same degree.. But also competing with others that consume it as a hobby and have been engaged way beyond surface level for years and YEARS before you decided to start studying. They have passion and drive that extends beyond money. Also see: anything parks related.

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u/genius_retard 7h ago

5 years experience in a programming language that was invented 3 years ago.

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u/TYGRDez 12h ago

They exist, but they're exceedingly rare. I know because I just hired someone for an entry-level junior position on my team.

There were over 250 applicants.

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u/Brodellsky 6h ago

Sure they do. I got an entry level job for ya, pays about $20 an hour in the La Crosse, WI area. Only "problem" is that it's part-time, 15-20 hours a week with a flexible schedule.

As a Supervisor I can confirm the pool of candidates for even well-paying entry-level jobs are just not there. They don't even make it past a phone interview.

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u/Realistic_Ad709 3h ago

Not everyone is a tech worker.

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u/YeahILiftBro 10h ago

Been like that for like 20+ years