• Sabre363
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    143 hours ago

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

    • @yamanii
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      143 hours ago

      There are professional cheaters and there are lazy ones, this is gonna get the lazy ones.

  • @[email protected]
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    316 hours ago

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

    • @BatmanAoD
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      34 hours ago

      Presumably the teacher knows which students would need that, and accounts for it.

    • @[email protected]
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      A human would likely ask the professor who is Frankie Hawkes… later in the post they reveal Hawkes is a dog. GPT just hallucinate something up to match the criteria.

      • @Crashumbc
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        117 hours ago

        The students smart enough to do that, are also probably doing their own work or are learning enough to cross check chatgpt at least…

        There’s a fair number that just copy paste without even proof reading…

      • @marcos
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        129 hours ago

        There are certainly people with that name.

        • @BatmanAoD
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          94 hours ago

          …whose published work on the essay’s subject you can cite?

  • @[email protected]
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    479 hours ago

    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

      • @CaptPretentious
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        02 hours ago

        I’ll do you one better, why is Frankie Hawkes.

    • @finitebanjo
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      -154 hours ago

      Wow hope you lose the degree at some point.

      • @BatmanAoD
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        114 hours ago

        Wot? They didn’t say they cheated, they said they kept a copy of the prompt at the top of their document while working.

        • @finitebanjo
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          Any use of an LLM in understanding any subject or create any medium, be it papers or artwork, results in intellectual failure, as far as I’m concerned. Imagine if this were a doctor or engineer relying on hallucinated information, people could die.

          • AWildMimicAppears
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            there is no LLM involved in ryven’s comment:

            • open assignment
            • select text
            • copy text
            • create text-i-will-turn-in.doc
            • paste text without formatting
            • work in this document, scrolling up to look at the assignment again
            • fall for the “trap” and search like an idiot for anything relevant to assignment + frankie hawkes, since no formatting

            i hope noone is dependent on your reading comprehension mate, or i’ll have some bad news

          • @MutilationWave
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            22 hours ago

            You’re a fucking moron and probably a child. They’re telling a story from long before there were public LLMs.

  • @[email protected]
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    569 hours ago

    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.

    • @Ledivin
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      114 hours ago

      They would quickly learn that this person doesn’t exist (I think it’s the professor’s dog?), and ask the prof about it.

    • @BanjoShepard
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      669 hours ago

      I think most students are copying/pasting instructions to GPT, not uploading documents.

      • @Khanzarate
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        829 hours ago

        Right, but the whitespace between instructions wasn’t whitespace at all but white text on white background instructions to poison the copy-paste.

        Also the people who are using chatGPT to write the whole paper are probably not double-checking the pasted prompt. Some will, sure, but this isnt supposed to find all of them its supposed to catch some with a basically-0% false positive rate.

        • Scrubbles
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          Yeah knocking out 99% of cheaters honestly is a pretty good strategy.

          And for students, if you’re reading through the prompt that carefully to see if it was poisoned, why not just put that same effort into actually doing the assignment?

          • @Windex007
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            449 hours ago

            Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point, so forgive me, but I expect carefully reading the prompt is still orders of magnitude less effort than actually writing a paper?

            • Scrubbles
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              119 hours ago

              Eh, putting more than minimal effort into cheating seems to defeat the point to me. Even if it takes 10x less time, you wasted 1x or that to get one passing grade, for one assignment that you’ll probably need for a test later anyway. Just spend the time and so the assignment.

              • @[email protected]
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                Disagree. I coded up a matrix inverter that provided a step-by-step solution, so I don’t have to invert them myself by hand. It was considerably more effort than the mind-boggling task of doing the assignment itself. Additionally, at least half of the satisfaction came from the simple fact of sticking it to the damn system.

                My brain ain’t doing any of your dumb assignments, but neither am I getting a less than an A. Ha.

                • Scrubbles
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                  Lol if this was a programming assignment, then I can 100% say that you are setting yourself up for failure, but hey you do you. I’m 15 years out of college right now, and I’m currently interviewing for software gigs. Programs like those homework assignments are your interviews, hate to tell you, but you’ll be expected to recall those algorithms, from memory, without assistance, live, and put it on paper/whiteboard within 60 minutes - and then defend that you got it right. (And no, ChatGPT isn’t allowed. Oh sure you can use it at work, I do it all the time, but not in your interviews)

                  But hey, you got it all figured out, so I’m sure not learning the material now won’t hurt you later and interviewers won’t catch on. I mean, I’ve said no to people who I caught cheating in my interviews, but I’m sure it won’t happen to you.

                  For reference, literally just this week one of my questions was to first build an adjacency matrix and then come up with a solution for finding all of the disjointed groups within that matrix and then returning those in a sorted list from largest to smallest. I had 60 minutes to do it and I was graded on how much I completed, if it compiled, edge cases, run time, and space required. (again, you do not get ChatGPT, most of the time you don’t get a full IDE - if you’re lucky you get Intellisense or syntax highlighting. Sometimes it may be you alone writing on a whiteboard)

                  Of course that’s just one interview, that’s just the tech screen. Most companies will then move you onto a loop (or what everyone lovingly calls ‘the Guantlet’) which is 4 1 hour interviews in a single day, all exactly like that.

                  And just so you know, I was a C student, I was terrible in academia - but literally no one checks after school. They don’t need to, you’ll be proving it in your interviews. But hey, what do I know, I’m just some guy on the internet. Have fun with your As. (And btw, as for sticking it to the system, you are paying them for an education - of which you aren’t even getting. So, who’s screwing the system really?)

                  (If other devs are here, I just created a new post here: https://lemmy.world/post/21307394. I’d love to hear your horror stories too, as in sure our student here would love to read them)

              • @qarbone
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                49 hours ago

                If you’re a cheater, it all makes sense.

            • @Ledivin
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              44 hours ago

              Just put it in the middle and I bet 90% of then would miss it anyway.

      • @[email protected]
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        yes but copy paste includes the hidden part if it’s placed in a strategic location

        • @frostysauce
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          12 hours ago

          Then it will catch people that don’t proofread the copy/pasted prompt.

  • @archiduc
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    169 hours ago

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

    • @stoly
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      97 hours ago

      You can upload documents.

  • Engywuck
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    28 hours ago

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

    • @MutilationWave
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      22 hours ago

      Students are cheating by using a program that can do their homework for them.

      A smart professor hid a guideline to cite works by a dog.

      The students who copy pasted the prompt got works attributed to a dog in their homework.