Klara and the Sun Essay Contest – $1k Prize – AI Use Allowed (willpenman.com)

it would be cool if it was judged by humans, blinded to whether the submissions were 0% ai, some ai, 100% ai, etc.

but it is judged by ai, which makes it much less cool in my opinion.

to demonstrate the absurdity, the second best submission right now has a note "Literally the Fable essay, but with one letter changed", ranking 10 pts higher than the Fable one.

Is it even legal to publish excerpts of books like this? Or does this fall under some kind of exemption/fair use clause?

This is a beautiful and haunting book.

> In today's world, what's the best way to get to a top-tier analytic essay? I'm curious to see.

AI generated content graded by AI for what goal exactly? I don't understand this contest at all.

Klara and the Sun is such a great book. Kazuo Ishiguro captured the intersection of technology and society in a way which can appeal to both to humanists and technologists. It was especially interesting to read his interpretation of partial sentience, learning and understanding the world from the lens of the artificial friends.

Are you publishing the rubric?

Trailer for the movie (coming soon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlwmEqQv82M