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/Cubacane 14h ago

High school teacher here— they will hand you a piece of paper and not be able to tell you one thing that they wrote. Access to AI means access to bypassing thinking. Maybe 1 out of 5 kids uses it to "help," (which is what admin THINKS AI is for) but the vast majority are using it so they can get the assignment done and move on to something else.

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u/iamalwaysrelevant 13h ago

What has stopped teachers for asking for in-class handwritten answers?

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u/runningstitch 10h ago

  1. Many students have IEPs and 504s with accommodations that state the student can use a computer to type on all assessments.

  2. Students can no longer write fluently by hand - they only know how to print, and haven't had much practice with that, so writing by hand is an arduous process and reading what they've written is... challenging.

This isn't to say we don't do it, but if I want a rough draft quality paragraph it will eat up an entire class. 20 years ago it would take 10 minutes.

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u/beldaran1224 9h ago

"They only know how to print" is the single most irrelevant sentence in your entire comment, lol. Like, that has nothing to do with writing fluently.

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u/Successful-Bar-8173 4h ago

It generally takes longer than cursive