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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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This is hysterical. Like the cheaters couldn't even be bothered to proof read what the AI wrote to make sure it was correct.
You haven't ran into someone doing this on work emails?
They don't read the full email they get, just far enough to see if they got what they want. Then they plug it into an AI, and tell it to respond, then copy/paste it back to Outlook and hit reply.
They'll keep doing that, over and over. And it usually ends up with them insisting on a meeting to "discuss" where they essentially get in a loop of "it'll work, just do it"
And it's like pulling fucking teeth to get them to admit the only thing they're basing that on, is a chatbot told them it would work.
People are worried about the kids, and we should be, but it rotted adults brains even faster, and because of their age they've got a much shorter clock to stop using it before effects are permanent. Couple with Covid related IQ drops and the fact that time is linear and we'll keep getting older...
Society is fucked.
We need to seriously treat AI like an addictive drug that people aren't capable of limiting themselves with.
People who use AI to do this at work, were doing it before AI too, just manually. Half-reading emails, restating the obvious, asking off topic questions and demanding meetings without purpose has been a norm in my career field for 20 years. Especially amongst middle managers.
The difference is they're lazy...
With AI they can "produce" and everyone else that's lazy doesn't notice it's gibberish.
The only people who realize it, are the ones who were always doing the work.
Those people were usually already struggling to pick up the slack. But now all the lazy idiots reply with multiple page emails and once you're dealing with 5-6 of them at once, it's impossible to keep up.
It's a literal gosh gallop attack, you can't address all the ways everyone's chatbot is wrong, and every email can I troduce multiple new issues while completely dropping the issue the chatbot insisted was most important.
So yeah....
The problem isn't new, it always existed
But now the issue is 10x the volume to get cleaned up