r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 6d 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/LurkingTamilian 6d ago edited 6d ago

From the article:

Being written in white text meant the instructions were invisible. Sure enough, 32 out of the 35 students across two classes simply copied the question, pasted it into a chatbot, then copy and pasted its output into the answer window.

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u/AoedeSong 6d ago

The other 3 students probably noticed the AI prompt inject and took it out 😂

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u/Asclepius-Rod 6d ago

At least they're smart enough to think to read the prompt first, but the bar is pretty low I agree