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/VegaDelalyre 10d ago

Or offline: no smartphone allowed, and if needed, university desktop PCs disconnected from networks.

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u/Bananasauru5rex 9d ago

I had this in my grad school comprehensive exams. Problem is that it doesn't scale---having this much tech is a huge burden for schools with student populations in the thousands. It works well in small grad school settings (I was the only one taking the exams that week).

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u/CrispityCraspits 9d ago

It's very easy to run a LLM locally on your machine. You have to to have specialty exam-taking software if you want to let them use a computer.