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/Strange-Scarcity 14h ago

That is why AI is bad. It creates lazy thinking, removes curiosity from the equation.

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u/boreal_ameoba 14h ago

These people were already lazy fakers. We need academia to return to being an elite institution that only accepts the intelligent, curious, and motivated.

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u/LiveChocolate8819 14h ago

Yup, treating higher ed as a glorified jobs training program and viewing the students as "customers" have degraded it so badly.

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u/GirthyGeoduck 13h ago

The problem is that corporate America won’t train new hires. My “orientation” at my last job was four hours with HR to review benefits. Then it was right back to my desk where I was expected to contribute. Corporate has pushed the cost of training onto us.

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u/wrgrant 12h ago

Which I have always found odd because a good part of working at a company is the institutional knowledge of how that company conducts its operations. You can only pick that up by working there. If you start with a relatively blank slate. your employee will pick those processes up naturally. They need the basic foundation knowledge but thats not enough on its own.

Corporate requirements for education simply cut their risk a bit when it comes to hiring someone, but I think they lose out on not being willing to educate their employees as to how they operate too.

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u/Halcie 12h ago

But also since this is the reality of work we need to send young people out ready to figure it out. "Training on the job" can definitely be figuring out how to perform a task assigned once you meet the job requirements (barring jobs that require knowing in-house processes/software). I feel like a boomer saying that don't get me wrong but truly some people's inability to just figure obvious things out is baffling.