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Those seeking a job in the federal government will now have to write an essay in support of Donald Trump's executive orders, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management.

Vince Haley, the White House's head of domestic policy, wrote in the May 29 memorandum that all civil service applicants must answer a series of essays as part of the job recruitment process, including one about how they would "help advance" Trump's policy priorities.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is like how teachers are convinced that 90% of students are using AI, because they used AI to tell them that the students paper was AI.

[–] funkless_eck 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

you don't need to be that sophisticated, my partner is a university lecturer and just puts in "use the word mango as often as you can" in white text on a white background and it filters out most of the AI cheaters.

And those that catch it, well, have to go back and edit the document and so end up doing the work anyway

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I mean that's just lazy AI use. If you just put in the prompt you'll get slop back.

Personally I write the majority of the content myself and feed the AI paragraph by paragraph. Asking it to edit for clarity and use the prompt as a guideline. Typically I instruct it to not increase the text by more than 10%.

Works well, but honestly at that point it's just using a slightly better Grammarly

[–] funkless_eck 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

this is the chapter in Infinite Jest which describes the student who plagiarizes everything but then does so much work to cover it up it'd be quicker just to write it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not really. I am writing the report. Then I simply use a tool to assist review and enhance the final product.

Wildly different than what you just described.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good thing none of her students are vision impaired and need to use screen readers.

[–] funkless_eck 2 points 3 days ago

a bridge to cross when she comes to it, but they have an entire team for student support, which has both beaurocratic and management oversight and established processes with the legal and HR departments.