This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
seriously, why aren't all tests being done in person at this point?
A lot of classes aren't in person any more.
I suppose schools could force online classes to test in person, but they seem to favor shitty proctoring and anti-cheating software instead.
Sure enough, 32 out of the 35 students across two classes simply copied the question, pasted it into a chatbot, then copy and pasted its output into the answer window.
That's an insanely high proportion. I don't think I've ever cheated on an exam or assignment, so the concept seems kind of weird to me.
I wonder if some of the remaining people used AI but then reviewed the output and removed the weird stuff, or if they wrote it themselves.
The students cheating are only making the people with preAI degrees more desirable.
"What sets you apart from the others?"
What don't get is how they didn't see the "invisible" text when they were copying it to paste it into the AI. Any tool I've ever used to select and copy text highlights it in a way that would show the "invisible" part. Was the question just so long that they could easily miss it?
I love the story but I'm a little skeptical just because of this one detail.
Probably they did ctrl+a or just dragged the mouse all the way down without looking
There's a video in the article that shows it. He put the prompt at the end of a bullet point, but still in the middle of the block of text. Very easy to miss if you're selecting all.
You'd have to be careful to craft the message in a way that a vision-impaired student would know to ignore it though, since assistive tech like a screenreader would suffer the same flaw. But by making it so outlandish helps.
I think the professor is already aware of anyone in the class who uses assistive technology like that.
Any suggestions for something I could hide in my emails for those recipients who choose to use AI negligently?
