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'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School (www.404media.co)
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Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal company documentation find sometimes do “more harm than good,” and scraping data from a variety of other online courses without permission to train its own AI, according to former Alpha School employees and internal company documents.

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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Perhaps the same could be said of all human! /hj

Wild that they are paying so much money to be the test subjects rather than companies just doing it for "free" as they do for a everyone else.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    /hj

    My brain always reads this as "/handjob" and it breaks my brain for a sec. :)

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    What's it supposed to mean?

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