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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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The problem isn't that they cheat. It is that they are not doing proper QA when using AI.
Everyone will use AI (or AI-powered robots) in some way or another for basically everything in a few years. Companies banning AI will just disappear. People who see using AI as cheating will become unemployable.
But no one knows when the massive AI reliability issue will be fixed. It can be tomorrow, but it can also take years or maybe even forever. Until then, AI requires a human doing proper QA to make the results reliable in almost all cases.
Doing QA mostly requires a completely different skill set and attitude than what the educational system teaches. That needs to change. Good QA is also important for doing anything without AI. But with AI, it's almost the only thing left for a human to do.
Btw, the article is bullshit. When the students select the text to copy it, the white on white text becomes visible. That is when people intelligent enough to be able to use AI (and yeah, that bar is really low; AI is pretty easy to use) are usually detecting that there is something fishy going on.
How is the article bullshit? The people copying the question just didn't bother to notice three extra highlighted part and remove it