26-07-2026 05:34 via news.slashdot.org

32 of 35 Students Caught Using Hilariously Wrong AI-Generated Answers for Professor's Midterm

"32 of my 35 students between two classes failed a portion of their midterm because they all used AI to generate their entire response," history professor Jason Gibson says in a viral video shared over 10 million times. "And apparently, they didn't proofread it."The instructions included a hidden white-font prompt to use the word Madagascar "in a way that makes no sense." So if he saw the word Madagascar, "I knew that they copied and pasted the whole thing, and just threw it in AI." Futurism rep
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