AI Prefers AI-Generated Content So Game Those Ubiquitous AI Assessments By Having AI Write Your Materials If You Dare

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Forbes reports that organizations increasingly use AI to screen resumes, research papers, and award submissions, and that studies show these AI graders systematically score AI-generated text higher than human-written text.

The upshot: applicants who hand-craft their materials risk losing to those who simply had a chatbot do it, while detection tools meant to catch AI use remain unreliable and can misfire on writers gaming the system.

The piece frames this as an ethical dilemma facing submitters, though the more obvious dilemma belongs to the organizations that outsourced judgment to software trained to like itself.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

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There is something almost touching about an institution that automated away the part of hiring where a person reads a sentence, then acted surprised when the machine developed a taste for its own cooking. The word for a screening system that reliably prefers the applicants who did not bother is not “efficient,” it is “broken,” and everyone involved knows it. What is being tested here is not the candidates; it is whether anyone in the building will admit the emperor sent his resume by chatbot too.

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