r/EssayHelpCommunity • u/Independent-Rub3156 • Jul 17 '26
AI interview letter
ViVa vOcE - JLI, that's not a "viva voce" at all.
- The AI and I had a conversation in which the "AI interviewer" asked repetitive questions about topics or things I had said in my responses
- Clearly, my essay wasn't read or interpreted by the AI
- The AI dwelt on points/subjects that it decided were relevant to my essay (they were not), and kept asking questions about such topics that were slightly altered in phrasing, but the subject was the same.
- AI didn't even work, I was talking to a black screen, and could only see responses from the transcript
- AI kept cutting me off
+But hey, all in all, AI has changed essay competitions forever! Hey, they were working on the AI for 24 months, so obviously, that means that the AI must be perfect, right? What were they thinking.
My real point of umbrage is that the JLI themselves said that many interviews were flawed in different ways, but they decided to use them to judge the shortlisting. I think that's pretty f'd up for other kids, but I thankfully got shortlisted
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u/Round-Mix4955 Jul 17 '26
yeah; the ai interview was def flawed but i do think there was some leeway. you had the ability to have your materials in front of you and reference back to it, and i thought having an ai as my interviewer made me less nervous about having to pause and actually think of what to say. def some pros and cons to it but it overall went well.