For the past year, I have used white text in my assignment rubrics that gives silly instructions as a way of combatting generative AI use. On the rubric, the text appears "hidden" and thus the student won't follow the instructions. If they copy/paste the text into an AI tool, however, the AI will follow those instructions, making it much easier to detect AI. Unfortunately, many students are now using dark mode, either within the app or on a web browser, which now makes that text visible to students, making this strategy untenable.
While there could be a number of solutions that I'm not smart enough to suggest, my initial suggestion would be that when in dark mode (or any mode, essentially) that if a text color is the same color as the background, it changes with the background color. Therefore, if it's white text on a white background and a student changes to dark mode, that text changes to black (just as the other text changes from black to white). I would be open to any solution that allows for "hidden" text. Thank you!
