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This year, about 1,400 essays got bizarrely wrong scores and had to be reassessed. You guessed it — a contractor scored them with AI!

The contractor, Cognia, got $36.5 million this year to mark essays, and they did that by just throwing them into the chatbot...

How did the contractor get caught out on this year’s disaster? One third-grade teacher went and checked her students’ essays and saw the bizarre scores. She alerted her principal, who sent it up to the district. In the end, 1,400 essays got remarked.

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[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Clearly I can’t read.