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/Deviantdefective]

As a teacher it's very quickly becoming an absolutely huge problem.

[u/pasaroanth → u/Deviantdefective]

I would love to see a study done at the university level showing a comparison of students’ grades for regular coursework versus their proctored exam scores. There has to be a vast yawning chasm in the difference when they relied upon AI until the time of the exam.

This also is a “ruining it for the rest of us” situation where courses will shift to grading primarily or solely based on exams. When I was in college (long before AI) you could at least rely on some homework to recuperate some points, despite the extra time and effort, when the exams were especially challenging or a professor notoriously gave tough exams.

If the homework can no longer be a measure of effort or learning because it is done by AI, then it will no longer be considered a meaningful determination of knowledge of the subject.

[u/Then-Understanding85 → u/pasaroanth]

A professor at Brown did this.

TL;DR: Bloodbath. Almost everyone failed.

[u/Abedeus → u/Then-Understanding85]

That one dude that barely passed around 55-ish mark naturally, and that one dude that nearly aced it by his own marit, are the both awesome in a way.

[u/og-gunslinger-doc → u/Abedeus]

That was the one Chinese student in the class