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Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI
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3 of 35 is not an unreasonable number of students who might have actually done the work themselves.
It's also a reasonable number of students who would read the answer before just blindly putting it into the answer sheet.
And this is the contemporary teacher's dilemma. Which is it? Did they do the work themselves, or did they simply proofread the machine's work? Those skills are not the same.
One is evidence that they understood and synthesized the information. The other is evidence that they could identify literal nonsense and remove it from their answer.