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It is actually judged by a human at the end FYI.

"The top 5 submissions will be finalists, judged by hand."

Kind of like submitting resumes these days. AI winnows them down and the remaining few get passed to humans.

And who knows what ‘gems’ might have been skipped by the machine.

it still loses its luster, for me, knowing that the top 5 are ai-selected

I'm trying to figure out why I should have any interest at all in participating in this? I mean, other than the $1000, but there's really no clear criteria as to what would win that $1000 since AI is judging it.

I mean it's obvious that note is trolling

unless you have seen the submission, i have no idea how you could possibly know.

so, if you don't mind, what are the 'tells'? what "obvious" things did i miss?

I worked a lot with designing and implementing agentic grading at my job, there's a ~0 chance that on a rubric with 180 items, changing 1 char out of 6000 words would result in a flip in 10+ grading items :)