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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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How stupid are these kids to not even check the answer? That’s the biggest issue here lol
Well, it's always the stupid ones, that's why stuff like this is effective. You will never catch a good student cheating with that method
32/35 students here did this. That's a hell of a lot more than just "the bad ones"
Checks out with my experience in university. I had like 3-4 classmates in software engineering that could program a simple program that ran. And this was before LLMs. You don't even need to cheat to pass while being absolutely incompetent. Of course, some people also cheated.
If they did it they're "the bad ones"
To me it's no surprise that the majority of people are stupid
Some people are too smart to fall for it, and dumb people know they're dumb, so they don't try, because they know they'll get caught.
You need those special ones who are too dumb to actually learn, but still think they are smart enough to outsmart a system that is beyond the comprehension of their puny minds. In other words, MAGAs.
Yes, MAGA would definitely fit the 'fell for it again' award, as would Democrats still trying to reform a party that openly rigged the primaries against left-wing populism - or really just centrist populism in global terms. (Not familiar with this source, sorry if it sucks but it includes the relevant direct quotes.)
Why try and bring politics into this? That train of thought you just showed points to a lack of intelligence, such I guess must mean you’re “MAGA”, right?
Sounds like middle management, too. Wanting to take credit for the work of others.
Its complacency, which is the worst thing to be engendering in the next generation.
Get them to the point that they don't know how to study or struggle, and you have a whole generation relying on your shitty LLM, and the dumber you are the less you know what you don't know until it's telling you what plants crave, sponsored by brawndo