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The Case of an AI Agent

April 18, 2026 by Gina Marcello

Abstract This case study documents the discovery of an AI Agent impersonating a student in an asynchronous undergraduate media and information literacy course. A hidden prompt embedded in the final paper revealed not only machine-generated text but the wholesale outsourcing of learning to an automated generative AI agent. Drawing on McLuhan’s (1964) concept of media … [Read more...] about The Case of an AI Agent

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