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Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI (www.techspot.com)
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In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students' midterm. It was about the...

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[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 hours ago

Also later in the article it mentions another professor who estimated that only 2 of their 86 students didn't use AI to cheat.

Like, what are we even doing any more?

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