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Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI
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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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This is hysterical. Like the cheaters couldn't even be bothered to proof read what the AI wrote to make sure it was correct.
You haven't ran into someone doing this on work emails?
They don't read the full email they get, just far enough to see if they got what they want. Then they plug it into an AI, and tell it to respond, then copy/paste it back to Outlook and hit reply.
They'll keep doing that, over and over. And it usually ends up with them insisting on a meeting to "discuss" where they essentially get in a loop of "it'll work, just do it"
And it's like pulling fucking teeth to get them to admit the only thing they're basing that on, is a chatbot told them it would work.
People are worried about the kids, and we should be, but it rotted adults brains even faster, and because of their age they've got a much shorter clock to stop using it before effects are permanent. Couple with Covid related IQ drops and the fact that time is linear and we'll keep getting older...
Society is fucked.
We need to seriously treat AI like an addictive drug that people aren't capable of limiting themselves with.
Strange. I am experiencing the same. In one case, I had to make, after six months of discussing an interface, an end-to-end test to show it didn't work and their, ahem, unit tests failed to show that. That was for a stepper motor interface and driver with three essential methods.
This guy is senior software architect at my workplace.
Boss insisting that I get to an agreement with him on ai usage.
Because most bosses don't understand if one person is using a bunch of AI, that almost always means everyone else is spending a lot of time behind the scenes making it workable.
They want AI to cut workers, so one worker using AI and touching a lot of things looks great...
As long as the other humans are there to clean up the mess, the AI users appears super productive.
But then when managers layoff everyone that doesn't use AI because they're not as productive, chickens roost and you realize no one still in the building actually knows their own work let alone the wider product
Even if caught before layoffs, by the time a worker's over reliance on AI is noticed, that employee can often no longer function without it.
But besides all that:
Anyone that expects employers to still pay for tokens a decade from now is insane. We're gonna see people taking 100k salary, and spend >50% of that on AI tokens themselves.
There's no way American corporations will keep shouldering the cost, they'll push that off onto the employees the second they can.