I'm not disputing that students cheat using AI, and that professors catch them and enact consequences.

But this video is a little suspicious. The fact that none of the 32 students bothered to even read the generated output feels strange. Or that those students didn't notice the extremely obvious white text at the bottom of the question when copy/pasting the assignment.

Combined with a TikTok account of a person who is clearly participating in the attention economy, I am skeptical.

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quuxplusone an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Combined with a TikTok account of a person who is clearly participating in the attention economy, I am skeptical.

Yep, from the context, 100% this is fake. Also, while this Jason Gibson claims to be a history professor at Alcorn State University, it seems to me that Alcorn State doesn't have a history department, and no "Jason Gibson" appears anywhere in the faculty list of Alcorn's College of Arts and Sciences. https://www.alcorn.edu/academics/schools-and-departments/col...

Maybe I'm sheltered, but I've never seen a university professor without a departmental web page and a list of publications. Or a RateMyProfessors.com listing.

	▲	hrunt 3 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm not saying Jason Gibson is or isn't a real peron, but a quick sleuthing turns up this: - Alcorn State History major within Department of Social Sciences[0] - Jason Gibson LinkedIn[1] It's true he's not listed on Alcorn State's faculty page[2], but it also says he started in July 2025. He is listed on the faculty page of Tougaloo College[3], which is listed in his LinkedIn bio. Sounds like he's probably an adjunct professor or someone without full standing, which isn't that uncommon to not list on a faculty page. The Social Sciences department at Alcorn State has 4 people listed, which seems low and probably incomplete. If it's a hoax, it's a pretty elaborate one. [0]https://www.alcorn.edu/academics/schools-and-departments/col... [1]https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-gibson-287782a2/ [2]https://www.alcorn.edu/academics/schools-and-departments/col... [3]https://www.tougaloo.edu/academic-faculty-directory
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bogzz 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For what it's worth, this is anecdotal as well, but a close friend of mine teaches math at a community college in NM and he routinely catches most of his students cheating on online multiple choice tests like this. He adds a sentence in white and tiny, tiny, text to the questions that either flip their meaning entirely or simply make one of the wrong answers seem correct. When I was visiting him at the end of last semester he was quite depressed when ALL of the students in one of his classes were caught cheating like this.

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542458 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I am also skeptical this is true. I made few typical exam essay questions and inserted the requisite clause about adding nonsense about Madagascar, and then had chatGPT answer the questions. In almost every case the output included a little executive summary at the bottom below the essay content, clearly calling out the nonsense it had added. I could believe a few students missing this, but over 90% of the class?

	▲	phil21 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I have friends who teach public high school classes. This is entirely believable to me based on the stories and trends they talk about.

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EA-3167 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It can be difficult for intelligent, curious, and motivated people to imagine the minds of lazy, stupid children.