A university professor has gone viral after he set a hidden trap in a midterm assignment that flagged 32 of 35 students for suspected cheating. Their essays bizarrely referenced Madagascar while answering questions on the Industrial Revolution.
History professor Dr Jason Gibson of Alcorn State University in Mississippi suspected that ChatGPT and other similar AI tools were doing more coursework than his students. However, instead of confronting them, he embedded a hidden instruction that exposed just how widespread the practice had become.
