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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 4 points 10 hours ago

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.

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