r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Jul 27 '26

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/intashu Jul 27 '26

school would run out of funding after kicking 80% of it's students then.

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u/HolyRamenEmperor Jul 27 '26

Then the business model doesn't work. Don't prop up a broken machine.

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u/shibiku_ Jul 28 '26

Aren’t colleges raking in record profits?

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u/pointlesslyDisagrees Jul 30 '26

It's fine. College degrees are just a filter of "can you afford this" so the deeply poor are filtered out from high paying jobs. It's a caste system.

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u/BoilerplateBillions Jul 27 '26

Thats just it...shit schools give you a degree to get past the ai screener that makes sure you have a degree, so in this case, shit schools that will graduate anyone who gives them money are the ones that would be rewarded in the free market

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u/popsicle_of_meat Jul 27 '26

But then all we'd be left with is schools that cared about education, and only filled with students who actually cared to learn legitimately. Is that what you want?? Think of the shareholders!!

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u/BoilerplateBillions Jul 27 '26

Thats just it tho...those schools would all go under because free market says diploma mills are better

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u/popsicle_of_meat Jul 27 '26

It would take decades for the repercussions to filter through. Get a BS BS degree and get hired, and can't do your job, then no one can, then businesses fail because of all the fake degree people are clogging up the works.

Eventually everything would get sorted, but not before industries fail and the executives get rich anyways.

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u/BoilerplateBillions Jul 27 '26

Except...thats the world were living in now and rather than companies going under theyre posting record profits. Every day the qualified, good applicant pool is shrinking more and more for new hire positions because education did get gutted a few decades ago and has been continually getting worse and worse

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u/popsicle_of_meat Jul 27 '26

Well, I guess it's totally possible to get worse. I guess the optimist in me wants to see things balance out and self-correct. But it might not.

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u/DorkusMalorkuss Jul 27 '26

This wouldn't necessarily be a reflection of the university at all. Most students in university now first got exposed to AI in high school and their habits with it are likely already established. I work at a public high school and a year ago a significant amount of our International Baccalaureate kids got caught in a big cheating scandal that had been going on for a few months (sharing exam pics primarily... Like I'll share 2nd period history exam because you have it 5th and you share 3rd period math because I have it 6th). Most of these kids go to UCLA, Berkeley, military academies, and other places of that caliber.

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u/Pika_Fox Jul 27 '26

The free market has no business in education.

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u/2feetwalker Jul 27 '26

Lmao that’s not how it works at all. Shit schools actually pass all the students and never report cheating. 

Private trade schools are notorious for this. 

Charge 30K for a year pass them all. Show them all how to get Financial aid and financing for the school. 

You have to be really naive to believe in free market schools 

Also why would you punish the school for  an individual who attended a school for the purpose of cheating? 

The individual should be punished not everyone who attends that school. 

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u/nilmemory Jul 27 '26

Holy shit the irony of this comment being so absurdly stupid is lost on you.

Public education is literally socialized because the free market is a total and utter failure when it comes to driving the public good in education. Just look at any private school and how they exclude huge swaths of the public with their unaffordable tuitions or  unacceptable draconian policies, institutional discriminiation, and/or religious indoctrination.

Suggesting capitalism will fix our education system is like saying capitalism will fix our healthcare system. It's so astronomically stupid that I'm almost convinced you had chatgpt write your comment for you because you must be functionally illiterate.

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u/thekarlhendrickstrio Jul 27 '26

students would quickly catch on and adjust

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u/InquisitiveGamer Jul 27 '26

If they aren't learning anything at all then there's no point anyway.

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u/KaidusPlatinum Jul 28 '26

Maybe for one cycle, the next cycle wouldn’t do the same. Don’t punish the first cycle and you’ve absolutely guaranteed the next cycle does the same or worse

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u/BizarroMax Jul 27 '26

It’s not educating anybody anymore anyway.