Hidden in white font within the assignment prompt was the word “Madagascar,” placed where it made no contextual sense. Students reading the prompt normally would never see it. But anyone who copied and pasted the prompt into an artificial intelligence chatbot, and then copied the chatbot’s response back into the assignment without reviewing it, would unknowingly include the hidden word in their answer.
The result, Gibson said, was striking.
“Thirty-two of my 35 students between two classes failed a portion of their midterm because they all used AI to generate their entire response,” he said in a series of TikTok videos explaining what happened. “Apparently they didn’t proofread it.”
Not surprising. Last semester, I made referrals to Student Conduct for 46% of my students for AI use, which I don't permit, and I only make those referrals when I have a confession.
Clever way to catch them though. Like a polar bear in a snowstorm.
Somewhat ironically, I use AI to check for AI use, but I don't just rely on the detector's findings. In cases where the detector reports at least 50% AI use, I then do side-by-side comparisons of the assignment in question against writing previously submitted by the student. In a lot of cases, the student's earlier submissions are not well-developed at all, in terms of both the writing and the analysis, and then suddenly they're producing essays composed of well-crafted sentences and insightful comments that are clearly not a product of the usual progression of learning, but more like a quantum leap. When confronted with such things, the students tend to fold pretty quickly and own up to using AI.
The milestones for artificial intelligence keep getting grander.
In 2023, an A.I. system passed the bar exam. In 2025, the technology helped scientists identify a suspected cause of Alzheimer’s disease. In May, A.I. had advanced so far that it solved a complex math problem that had stumped experts for 80 years. Last week, two A.I. systems under testing went rogue and hacked into a company’s database.
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https://www.today.com/parents
https://www.today.com/parents/family/professor-catches-ai-cheating-hidde...
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Nothing to see here
Hidden in white font within the assignment prompt was the word “Madagascar,” placed where it made no contextual sense. Students reading the prompt normally would never see it. But anyone who copied and pasted the prompt into an artificial intelligence chatbot, and then copied the chatbot’s response back into the assignment without reviewing it, would unknowingly include the hidden word in their answer.
The result, Gibson said, was striking.
“Thirty-two of my 35 students between two classes failed a portion of their midterm because they all used AI to generate their entire response,” he said in a series of TikTok videos explaining what happened. “Apparently they didn’t proofread it.”
Nothing to see here
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Not surprising. Last semester
Not surprising. Last semester, I made referrals to Student Conduct for 46% of my students for AI use, which I don't permit, and I only make those referrals when I have a confession.
Clever way to catch them though. Like a polar bear in a snowstorm.
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Time to go back to old
Time to go back to old fashioned Blue Books and in class writing assignments done in the classroom, without access to phones or tablets.
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Those things work for in
Those things work for in-person classes, but they don't work for the roughly 50% of college students in the US who take online classes.
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Guess you need some tricks up
Guess you need some tricks up your sleeve to catch and flunk the cheaters
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Somewhat ironically, I use AI
Somewhat ironically, I use AI to check for AI use, but I don't just rely on the detector's findings. In cases where the detector reports at least 50% AI use, I then do side-by-side comparisons of the assignment in question against writing previously submitted by the student. In a lot of cases, the student's earlier submissions are not well-developed at all, in terms of both the writing and the analysis, and then suddenly they're producing essays composed of well-crafted sentences and insightful comments that are clearly not a product of the usual progression of learning, but more like a quantum leap. When confronted with such things, the students tend to fold pretty quickly and own up to using AI.
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From today's New York Times:
From today's New York Times:
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This thread needs a lemur.
This thread needs a lemur.
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I only knew where Mauritius (
I only knew where Mauritius ( I think) was in yesterday's MapTap because I knew it was near Madagascar. No AI
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Another reason not to have AI
Another reason not to have AI do your assignment - without proof reading
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89n0xykw2go