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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 20 points 4 days ago

Training the kids not to trust AI at such a young age. Real forward-thinking, that Massachusets contractor! /s

Not marking with the chatbot is apparently not an option. AI might save money in the future! So kid, we’re gonna keep treating you with contempt. It’s good preparation for your future.

AI as an ideology shows contempt for humans and human-made work, so seeing believers in AI double-down is completely unsurprising

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

The essays being scored by a contractor, is that just normal weird or also USA weird?

[-] cornflake@awful.systems 1 points 8 minutes ago

If it's a job function that didn't exist 70 years ago and is not directly carceral, guaranteed it is not going to be a government employee in the USA.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

At both unis I was at (U of Warsaw, TU Munich) courses with heavy loads contract out grading to students of the university. E.g. during my M.Sc. I was grading submissions for one of the B.Sc. courses I already completed. You get a small amount of money for that.

Contracting out to a company sounds extremely USA-pilled, as in "the university does not have enough resources so, instead of increasing their budget, we use THE FREE MARKET BABY and have a company whose whole existence is dependent on that resource hole continuing to exist."

[-] aio@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In this case these are grade schooler's (roughly ages 9-18) essays for a standardized test, so there isn't a body of students who could grade them.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh sure, postgrads grading and even substitute teaching occasionally is very normal here too (edit: Greece)

For those who didn't read the article, the culprit is a Massachusetts company called Cognia that's apparently doing essay grading to the tune of $36.5M yearly revenue, which, what?

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