Student cheating detection
url: https://www.techspot.com/news/113243-professor-invisible-prompt-trap-catches-32-students-cheating.html
title: "Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI"
description: "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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Earlier this month, a professor at Brown University saw midterm averages jump from the typical range of 65% to 80% to 96% after he allowed take-home exams. He estimated that all but two of his 86 students used AI to cheat.
