cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53211662
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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Teachers are using AI to grade essays. But some experts are raising ethical concerns
We pretend to study and they pretend to grade us.
Can't not read that in his voice
I read it three times perfecting his voice, then I read your comment.
Which I think just illustrates that take-home essays aren't a great way to do things now, if they ever were.
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.
Reminds me of the ageless socialist joke:
95/100, this grade brought to you by Doctor Squatch.
Yeah... That's a violation of FERPA and is reportable offense that'll get ya fired or sued. Lol
of course, most of school was bullshit long before AI, so what
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.
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.
It kind of is sometimes, but at the same time it's hard to do education any other way.
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.
best part of my education happened outside of class, in TA and office hours (or prepping for them). same with best part of my college years.