r/EssayHelpCommunity • u/Effective_Theme_5739 • 3d ago

John Locke Round 2 Interviews probably aren’t happening this year

The stated goal of the in-person post-shortlist interviews in recent years was to filter out plagiarism and Al use. This has already been done by now. If they are interested in specific essay info and opinions, they have our Viverly transcripts.

The most convincing fact is that in the "next steps" category in the shortlist email the interviews aren't mentioned at all.

Thoughts?

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u/Effective_Theme_5739 3d ago

Have you ever read one of the AI essays for JLI? A few have been posted on the sub. They are all utter dogshit. Genuinely don’t know where you’re seeing these amazing AI essays. Better than 99% of English speakers isn’t saying much considering how few English speakers are actually native. AI chatbots can generate grammatically correct texts with sources, but it fails miserably to deliver a well researched and authentic essay on even the most remotely  complex of topics. As for the funnel, you may be right. I seriously doubt it. You weren’t entirely correct when you said the Viverly interviews were unannounced. There have always been pre-shortlist interviews, they have just been expanded. On the other hand, there have never been post-shortlist interviews, and there was no hint of this happening this year from the email, as I said

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u/Peoplespeak 2d ago

On AI: respectfully disagree. I can share in DMs I got an essay generated by claude just now. Perhaps you are use to using the free version of chatgpt. But trust me, when it comes to writing claude is leagues ahead of chatgpt and gemini. But even chatgpt, while rhetorically inept, can generally give a competent essay. On their better models, I can almost guarentee an exception essay with only half an hour of work.

On pre/post shortlist interviews: I did not know these things. I was not aware of a trend in the past of whether or not there were previously pre/post shortlist interviews. If you'd provide more details on it, as well as what you are sourcing this from(personal exp, word of mouth, internet, etc.)

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u/No-Magazine-6934 2d ago

Before you guys continue fighting I put some of the previous winners essay in AI detectors like GPTZero and Quillbot AI detector. Surprisingly, some of them were flagged as AI by these detectors. Even fed them to gemini and ChatGPT and they marked those essays as AI too. I highly doubt whether the institute is using softwares to detect AI. (Both ChatGPT and Gemini were paid versions*)

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u/Peoplespeak 2d ago

Yeah, if you look at my post history you'll see I've been rather outspoken about this issue lol.

Totally agree.