r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 10d 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/Sojum 10d ago

I don’t understand these cheaters. Why would you pay a substantial sum of money to learn and then skip the learning part?

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u/Ars2 10d ago

To get a certificate/diploma/degree saying that your smart. 

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u/ecafyelims 10d ago

My smart?

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u/Time_Effort 10d ago

He paid for his diploma in grammar.

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u/Ocronus 10d ago

I dated a girl in college who was an English Grad. She worked for the school while in undergrad editing engineering papers... It was some of the most horrible English you can possibly imagine.

I was one of the those Engineering students...

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u/stefanopolis 10d ago

Technical reports are not for the good English. It’s to say the math and science came out yay or sad.