Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI
Summary
TechSpot reports a professor used an invisible prompt trap to catch students cheating with AI on a midterm. By embedding white text instructing the AI to discuss Madagascar within a question about the Industrial Revolution, 32 of 35 students in two classes relied on AI, revealing a broader challenge of AI-assisted cheating in education and prompting discussion of teacher responses and social media coverage.