A professor places an AI trap in a written assignment — an instruction to ChatGPT about using the word Madagascar somewhere that makes no sense.
This instruction was written with white text on white, which students did not see it, but when copying the assignment into ChatGPT, the white text was read as an instruction and followed by AI.
Result: 32 of 35 students were busted for letting AI do their homework. Who will keep the wheels turning, when our generation is gone?
https://youtu.be/9ZS4zorzTMI?si=R2gTBqH0PVNgT2W0
Randahl Fink
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2026-08-15 19:42:12 UTC
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