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Why can't the teachers use LLMs to grade?
by bongodongobob 1y ago
Why can't the teachers use LLMs to grade?
- eru 1y agoMight be interesting. You can at least use modern AI to turn scans of hand-scrawled-on paper into something readable.
- obscurette 1y agoIn general – why I'd put my effort into visiting (and paying for) a school and learning in such case? That's not what schools are for. I can get any amount of grades I want from LLM myself.
- bongodongobob 1y agoGrading is already mechanical, it's just a human does it. I'm not sure what you're objecting to here.
- qotgalaxy 1y ago[dead]
- greenavocado 1y agoAh, the eternal dream of offloading all human labor to machines. Why can't teachers just let an LLM grade? Because, of course, nothing says "educational integrity" like a glorified autocomplete deciding whether little Timmy's essay on Shakespeare adequately captures the existential dread of Hamlet. Sure, let's trust a model that hallucinates citations. But fine, if we're really committed to stripping all nuance from education, why stop there? Let's just plug students into Anki's FSRS algorithm and call it a day. Just assign grades based on how fast their retention decays, because nothing says "holistic assessment" like reducing a human being to a set of coefficients in a spaced repetition formula. Never mind that actual learning involves things like critical thinking or, heaven forbid, creativity. No, no, we'll just reduce the entire process to a forgetting curve. Because nothing inspires a love of knowledge like treating human minds as poorly optimized flashcard decks, mechanically processed and discarded the moment their retention scores dip below acceptable thresholds.