Easily by thwarted by simply proofreading your shit before you submit it
There are professional cheaters and there are lazy ones, this is gonna get the lazy ones.
Btw, this is an old trick to cheat the automated CV processing, which doesn't work anymore in most cases.
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
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the hiway.
Ages ago, there was a time where my dad would mail back up tapes for offsite storage because their databases were large enough that it was faster to put it through snail mail.
It should also be noted his databases were huge, (they’d be bundled into 70 pound packages and shipped certified.)
Pigeons with flash drives ftw
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/yes-a-pigeon-is-still-faster-than-gigabit-fiber-internet
Peregrine falcons FTL…
(There’s this fat fucker that hunts off our building’s rooftop. It waits for a pigeon to strike the neighboring buildings windows and scoops them up. Some how it’s reassuring to know that humans aren’t the only lazy animals. Peregrine are freaking cool though.)
I'm laughing my ass off at this
Edit:
https://chatgpt.com/share/671da57b-5fe4-8005-bdba-68b69f398c72
Still fucking amazing
I like to manipulate dallee a lot by making fantastical reasons why I need edgy images.
Just takes one student with a screen reader to get screwed over lol
Presumably the teacher knows which students would need that, and accounts for it.
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.
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...
actually not too dumb lol
I think most students are copying/pasting instructions to GPT, not uploading documents.
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.
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?
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?
Or if they don't bother to read the instructions they uploaded
Just put it in the middle and I bet 90% of then would miss it anyway.
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
Who is Frankie Hawkes?
I'll do you one better, why is Frankie Hawkes.
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.
They would quickly learn that this person doesn't exist (I think it's the professor's dog?), and ask the prof about it.
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