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[–] 95 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Teachers are using AI to grade essays. But some experts are raising ethical concerns

We pretend to study and they pretend to grade us.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Which I think just illustrates that take-home essays aren't a great way to do things now, if they ever were.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago

    I mean, graded take home essays are a waste. It's like assigning weight training. Good for exercising, and we can talk about your form when you're done.

    But as soon as you start stack ranking the results, the incentive to cheat outpaces the goal of practicing ingesting and outputing ideas.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    of course, most of school was bullshit long before AI, so what

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    School is suppose to teach you how to critically think and learn. The material is mostly there to prove you have the ability to do it.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    In an ideal world, sure. School, largely, hasn’t taught that in a long time. That’s not how the incentive structures work. School is incentivized by grades, grades don’t go up with learning, teaching is hard, memorizing and regurgitating? That’s much easier. Tests have been changed to reflect that.

    Unless, you’re not American that is. I wouldn’t have any experience with a somewhat functional education system.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It kind of is sometimes, but at the same time it's hard to do education any other way.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, it's because it's not the school that is bullshit.

    It's some of the stuff people do there. At the same time, some aren't. And we are incredibly bad at telling the difference, and worse than useless on doing that at scale.

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