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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7kdWCHCPvI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250927-massachusetts-mcas-tests-sorry-kid-ai-says-fail - podcast
time: 4 min 33 sec
Massachusetts MCAS tests: sorry kid, AI says ‘fail’
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/27/massachusetts-mcas-tests-sorry-kid-ai-says-fail/
6 Comments
BlueMonday1984@awful.systems · 21 pts · 316d
Training the kids not to trust AI at such a young age. Real forward-thinking, that Massachusets contractor! /s
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 · 1 pts · 316d
Architeuthis@awful.systems · 8 pts · 316d
The essays being scored by a contractor, is that just normal weird or also USA weird?
V0ldek@awful.systems · 6 pts · 316d
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."
Architeuthis@awful.systems · 8 pts · 316d
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?
aio@awful.systems · 3 pts · 314d
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.
cornflake@awful.systems · 2 pts · 312d
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.