Students Cheat. Who Knew?
December 12, 2025
How many times are we going to report on this topic? Students cheat! Students have been cheating since the invention of school. With every advancement of technology, students adapt to perfect their cheating skills. AI was a gift served to them on a silver platter. Teachers aren’t stupid, however, and one was curious how many of his students were using AI to cheat, so he created a Trojan Horse. HuffPost told his story: “I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.”
There’s a big difference between recognizing AI and proving it was used. The teacher learned about a Trojan Horse: hiding hidden text inside a prompt. The text would be invisible because the font color would be white. Students wouldn’t see it but ChatGPT would. He unleashed the Trojan Horse and 33 essays out of 122 were automatically outed. Thirty-nine percent were AI-written. Many of the students were apologetic, while others continued to argue that the work was their own despite the Trojan Horse evidence.
AI literacy needs to be added to information literacy. The problem is that how to properly use AI is inconsistent:
“There is no consistency. My colleagues and I are actively trying to solve this for ourselves, maybe by establishing a shared standard that every student who walks through our doors will learn and be subject to. But we can’t control what happens everywhere else.”
Even worse is that some students don’t belief they’re actually cheating because they’re oblivious and stupid. He ends on an inspirational quote:
“But I am a historian, so I will close on a historian’s note: History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans, ranging from ostracism to death. Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
Noble words for small minds.
Whitney Grace, December 12, 2025
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