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Professor Sets An AI Trap and Catches 32 Students Red-Handed
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AI may be making life easier for college students, but one professor found a creative way to see who was using it to get through his class.
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What appeared to bother him most was not only that students used AI, but that many submitted the generated reports without reading them first.
AI seems to be the new Sparknotes, but even back then, students knew to switch up the words and reread before submission.
A 2025 report from the USC Center for Generative AI and Society suggests the issue isn’t simply that students are using AI, but how they’re choosing to use it.