Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI
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Re: Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI
#2The trap was hidden text instructing the AI to use the word “Madagascar” in a nonsensical way. The assignment was about the Industrial Revolution. “Madagascar wore a toaster to the basketball game” is an example of what a student turned in. The instructor says it was the midterm, but looks like it was more of an online discussion. Anyway, I knew cheating was bad, but this is just flagrant.
Re: Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI
#3The trap was hidden text instructing the AI to use the word “Madagascar” in a nonsensical way. The assignment was about the Industrial Revolution. “Madagascar wore a toaster to the basketball game” is an example of what a student turned in. The instructor says it was the midterm, but looks like it was more of an online discussion. Anyway, I knew cheating was bad, but this is just flagrant.
It always amazes me that people don’t even check the output of the AI.
I am at the moment going through a codebase where the dev told me that he had AI write the tests and that the project is finished. Turns out that some tests are totally nonsensical and a lot of the real world edge conditions aren’t tested at all.
I am all for AI but you can’t just blindly let it do its thing and think you are fine.
Re: Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI
#4I fear for this generation of folks that are losing the ability to think. They have a very sad existence ahead.
Re: Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI
#5I think there is a vast difference between leveraging a tool and outsourcing your cognitive functions, which is what seemed to happen in this specific case.
Are schools failing students? How do you instill a desire to learn?
I hope someone smart is trying to solve this because the ramifications on society are bleak. One anecdotal case isn't proof but it follows general trends I've seen across campuses.
Re: Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI
#6I think there is a vast difference between leveraging a tool and outsourcing your cognitive functions, which is what seemed to happen in this specific case. Are schools failing students? How do you instill a desire to learn? I hope someone smart is trying to solve this because the ramifications on society are bleak. One anecdotal case isn't proof but it follows general trends I've seen across campuses.
The truth is that most people don’t go to school out of a desire to learn. At least not mostly. They do it out of a desire to earn a living, to be able to get decent jobs.
If getting the degree is just a certificate to allow you to get jobs, that’s all a lot of people will care about.
We need a system of apprenticeship. Some school, yes, but we have over indexed on school and forced it into a role for which it is ill suited.
Re: Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI
#7The trap was hidden text instructing the AI to use the word “Madagascar” in a nonsensical way. The assignment was about the Industrial Revolution. “Madagascar wore a toaster to the basketball game” is an example of what a student turned in. The instructor says it was the midterm, but looks like it was more of an online discussion. Anyway, I knew cheating was bad, but this is just flagrant.
I couldn't imagine cheating like that and then not even checking/editing the output.
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Re: Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI
#9I fear for this generation of folks that are losing the ability to think. They have a very sad existence ahead.
The ability to think and no attention to detail whatsoever. I mean, proofreading is absolutely necessary, regardless of how the text was written.
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