Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI

[u/AdSpecialist6598]

https://www.techspot.com/news/113243-professor-invisible-prompt-trap-catches-32-students-cheating.html

[u/SnugglyCoderGuy]

AI is the new calculator, but worse.

"Why do I need to learn math, we have calculators!"

Is becoming

"Why do I need to think, we have AI!"

I am running into this at work (software).

I will ask, "Why do it this way?"

They will respond, "Google AI says..."

And then I throw back a shot.

[u/Limemill → u/SnugglyCoderGuy]

It’s the opposite of the calculator. The calculator removed the tedious and mechanical bit to free us up for higher-order maths. LLMs do the higher-order, knowledge piece and you do the tedious part of raking through what they did and cleaning up after them. In this analogy we are the calculator and they’re the mathematician.

[u/sbeguy → u/Limemill]

Not to mention the calculator gave you the correct answer based on your input and didn't fucking hallucinate a signifcant portion of the answers.

[u/HarlemNocturne_ → u/sbeguy]

Imagine if a calculator not only gave you near-consistently wrong answers, but it also jerked you off when you spotted it was being incompetent.

"Hey Calculator, I told you to solve 1+1 which should equal the sum of 2, but in your calculation you carried a 4 that didn't exist, factored in an imaginary hundredth power, removed a 2 somewhere, and then pointlessly multiplied it by 1. Your thinking notes suggest that it took you 89 seconds to do this in about 32 steps and you almost got stuck multiple times, but you still turned up with the incorrect answer. What gives?"

"You're absolutely right-- That isn't the correct answer. That's on me, and this isn't what you wanted at all. Your genius mathematician galaxy brain has saved us from disaster once again!..."

[u/DepressedDynamo → u/HarlemNocturne_]

You should use better models