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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.