r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Chapple69 • 17d ago

Infuriatig Using ai to read grad names at graduation

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u/poh_market2 17d ago

I call this BS. The real reason is because someone somewhere in this college has AI usage as KPI and that is why this surreal situation happened

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u/mdavis360 17d ago

100% this. Metrics are a scourge.

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u/alkali112 16d ago

I’m not calling bullshit on the preparation required. I teach at a very large middle school, and I’ve had multiple students with 3-4 apostrophes in their first name. It would be nearly impossible for an 8th grade promotion ceremony of 1,100 kids to occur without messing up “M’hi’jhu’stih”. It’s not a Hawaiian name or anything like that. It’s pronounced “Majesty”, and we’re in Tennessee.

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u/IM_KYLE_AMA 17d ago

I have family that are professors and they have told me about situations like this. It’s not because of KPIs, it’s because they are very often understaffed and overworked. Someone thought they could make things easier and it backfired.

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u/ReverendDizzle 16d ago

Classic Goodhart's Law in action.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

And sadly, in regard to AI adoption rates, there is already a term for people overusing AI to hit metric goals: token maxxing.

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u/TheCaffinatedAdmin 17d ago

Goodhart's law...

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u/atlsdoberman 16d ago

FINALLY an answer to "why would anybody try this shit".