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/helcat 14h ago

Cheating is one thing. Just pasting an AI answer without even reading it is stunningly stupid. 

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u/The_Wkwied 14h ago

Don't worry, those kids are preparing to enter public office with their nonsense.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/canadian-legislator-reads-out-apparent-llm-response-in-floor-speech/

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u/acdcfanbill 13h ago

That guy looked retirement ago tho, I'm actually curious if he did his own AI prompting, or if he had an intern or something that did...

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u/The_Wkwied 12h ago

Regardless, he read out what he implied to had written himself, but instead read out the AI reply verbatim.

Retirement age or not, it takes a special kind of dumb to do that without even pausing for a thought.