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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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[–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

When aren't students treated like guinea pigs? Hank Green once pointed out that most science done on "people" were actually done on mostly white, mostly American, mostly young, mostly male college students, because that's who signs up for "studies."

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