News Summary

• Alcorn State University professor hides white text in assignment prompt telling AI to talk nonsense about an unrelated subject.
• 32 out of the 35 students across two classes simply copied the question, pasted it into a chatbot, then copy and pasted its output into the answer window.
• In one case, the AI talked about the Industrial Revolution before adding what seems to be a cryptic message one spy would whisper to another.
• In the viral TikTok post below, an exasperated Gibson said all the students he caught using AI failed this portion of their midterm.