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

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 118 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Here saved you a click and and badly written "article"

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 Industrial Revolution, but knowing how many students now rely solely on artificial intelligence for their answers, he secretly embedded instructions telling the AI to include information about Madagascar in a way that makes no sense.

Being written in white text meant the instructions were invisible.

(...)

Had any of these cheaters even bothered to check what the AI had generated, they'd likely have noticed the strange references to the island country constantly appearing in an essay about the Industrial Revolution.

[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lol? How is the article badly written? Also it's like 3 paragraphs long and took me 60 seconds to read. Pretending that's impossible is almost as bad as using AI to cheat on an exam.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It reads like a Facebook post, which IMO makes it poorly written

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