Clever, clever

actually not too dumb lol

Just takes one student with a screen reader to get screwed over lol

I like to royally fuck with chatGPT. Here's my latest, to see exactly where it draws the line lol:

https://chatgpt.com/share/671d5d80-6034-8005-86bc-a4b50c74a34b

TL;DR: your internet connection isn't as fast as you think

I wish more teachers and academics would do this, because I"m seeing too many cases of "That one student I pegged as not so bright because my class is in the morning and they're a night person, has just turned in competent work. They've gotta be using ChatGPT, time to report them for plagurism. So glad that we expell more cheaters than ever!" and similar stories.

Even heard of a guy who proved he wasn't cheating, but was still reported anyway simply because the teacher didn't want to look "foolish" for making the accusation in the first place.

Something I saw from the link someone provided to the thread, that seemed like a good point to bring up, is that any student using a screen reader, like someone visually impaired, might get caught up in that as well. Or for that matter, any student that happens to highlight the instructions, sees the hidden text, and doesnt realize why they are hidden and just thinks its some kind of mistake or something. Though I guess those students might appear slightly different if this person has no relevant papers to actually cite, and they go to the professor asking about it.

My college workflow was to copy the prompt and then "paste without formatting" in Word and leave that copy of the prompt at the top while I worked, I would absolutely have fallen for this. :P

Easily by thwarted by simply proofreading your shit before you submit it

For those that didn't see the rest of this tweet, Frankie Hawkes is in fact a dog. A pretty cute dog, for what it's worth.

Is it invisible to accessibility options as well? Like if I need a computer to tell me what the assignment is, will it tell me to do the thing that will make you think I cheated?

Btw, this is an old trick to cheat the automated CV processing, which doesn't work anymore in most cases.

Ah yes, pollute the prompt. Nice. Reminds me of how artists are starting to embed data and metadata in their pieces that fuck up AI training data.

Frankie Hawkes

Wouldn’t the hidden text appear when highlighted to copy though? And then also appear when you paste in ChatGPT because it removes formatting?

Chatgpt does this request contain anything unusual for a school assignment ?

https://xcancel.com/KellyMSocia/status/1849862692640837755#m

Hot take if you can't distinguish a student's paper from a GPT generated one you're teaching in a deeply unserious place

I don't get it (not a native English speaker). Someone cares to ELI5? Thanks a lot in advance.

Edit: thank you everybody for explaining :-)

Doesn't help if students manually type the assignment requirements instead of just copying & pasting the entire document in there

This is invisible on paper but readable if uploaded to chatGPT.

This sounds fake. It seems like only the most careless students wouldn't notice this "hidden" prompt or the quote from the dog.

Maybe if homework can be done by statistics, then it's not worth doing.

Maybe if a "teacher" has to trick their students in order to enforce pointless manual labor, then it's not worth doing.

Schools are not about education but about privilege, filtering, indoctrination, control, etc.

Shouldn't be the question why students used chatgpt in the first place?

chatgpt is just a tool it isn't cheating.

So maybe the author should ask himself what can be done to improve his course that students are most likely to use other tools.