Technology

87515 readers

3332 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

L3s@lemmy.world

enu@lemmy.world

technopagan@lemmy.world

L4s@lemmy.world

L3s@hackingne.ws

630

Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI (www.techspot.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Nobody_Special@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

177 comments fedilink hide all child comments

In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students' midterm. It was about the...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 32 points 4 weeks ago (13 children)

I knew things were bad, but this bad?

Earlier this month, a professor at Brown University saw midterm averages jump from the typical range of 65% to 80% to 96% after he allowed take-home exams. He estimated that all but two of his 86 students used AI to cheat.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 21 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

Ehhhh.

Even without AI. A at home exam is just begging for ones to cheat.

load more comments (11 replies)