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Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters
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Re: Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters
#22This has been known for ages in school and college tests, the German word is "Fangfrage" (literally translated: catch question or better, trap question).
Ask a question that demands an answer, and expect the correct answer to point out that the question makes no sense.
Bonus points for pointing out why it doesn't.
Re: Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters
#23Interestingly, I pasted one of the trap questions into Claude and it told me the question doesn't make any sense.
It might take a few bogus questions to expose the AI.
Edit: This is only to say I find Claude's ironic response humorous. I think this tool is great!
Re: Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters
#24What do you think is wrong with > How do you implement a recursive descent algorithm for parsing a JSON file? That is a 100% reasonable interview question. It's not _quite_ how I would phrase it, but it's not out of distribution, as it were.
You are completely correct, great catch, that's a (non-AI) hallucination on my part.
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Re: Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters
#25This has been known for ages in school and college tests, the German word is "Fangfrage" (literally translated: catch question or better, trap question). Ask a question that demands an answer, and expect the correct answer to point out that the question makes no sense. Bonus points for pointing out why it doesn't.
Fuck any smug prick who thinks this is a good idea when I’m in an exam and already stressed out as it is.
Re: Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters
#26This has been known for ages in school and college tests, the German word is "Fangfrage" (literally translated: catch question or better, trap question). Ask a question that demands an answer, and expect the correct answer to point out that the question makes no sense. Bonus points for pointing out why it doesn't.
Fuck any smug prick who thinks this is a good idea when I’m in an exam and already stressed out as it is.
I think it would be great to decrease the stress by using a lower repetition workload, and still asking thoughtful questions. Hear you though... it's not that I'm highly educated :D
But I appreciate people and teachers who emphasize knowledge/understanding over repetition and "saying what is expected".
Re: Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters
#27Interestingly, I pasted one of the trap questions into Claude and it told me the question doesn't make any sense. It might take a few bogus questions to expose the AI. Edit: This is only to say I find Claude's ironic response humorous. I think this tool is great!
Was this one generated by the tool, or one of the examples here? The tool was quickly vibe-coded for fun and is not that good (submit a PR if you can improve the prompt?), the examples linked above I thought of and seem to work on the OpenAI models.
Re: Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think if it was one of the starter questions in an interview, and then they were up front about it and went "now that that's out of the way we can continue with the actual interview", then it wouldn't be much of a problem.
Might as well ask them to click the bicycles if they wanted to be up front about it
but we've been training NN models to click bicycles for years now, surely they must be able to do it
Re: Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters
#29Or you could just ask them to describe an implementation they are most proud of, the challenges they faced, the architectural decisions and tradeoffs they made and keep digging deeper into their thought process.
For a remote interview, I would do something as simple as share a Lucid app document where they can do a rough diagram of their architecture.
Even before LLMs, it was easy to pass techno trivia interviews by just looking up “the top X interview question for technology Y”
Re: Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters
#30Interestingly, I pasted one of the trap questions into Claude and it told me the question doesn't make any sense. It might take a few bogus questions to expose the AI. Edit: This is only to say I find Claude's ironic response humorous. I think this tool is great!
Was this one generated by the tool, or one of the examples here? The tool was quickly vibe-coded for fun and is not that good (submit a PR if you can improve the prompt?), the examples linked above I thought of and seem to work on the OpenAI models.
By the tool. I don't think this invalidates your project. I think your project is great. I was more humored by AI telling me the question was nonsense.
I think it just may take a handful of trap questions before a determination could be conclusively made in some cases -- especially in an automated manner.