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this is so dark, Black Mirror couldn’t have imagined it (ani.social)
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[–] 60 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

I had to look this up. This is the founder of Khan Academy, depressingly.

Full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Iz-lLAhdg

He unironically waxes awestruck at how AI is changing everything and then sheepishly admits his Anthropic bill is about $1.2 million per year. He has caught the AI stupids, and it's probably terminal.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    He unironically waxes awestruck at how AI is changing everything and then sheepishly admits his Anthropic bill is about $1.2 million per year.

    I mean, that depends on how many people are using it. Are we talking about one person, or a whole company?

    I'm sure he could save 3-10x of his money by using open source models. Anthropic charges too much when Kimi K3 matches its capabilities.

    He has caught the AI stupids, and it’s probably terminal.

    I hate how there's a certain segment of the population who loves to hate everything AI, while a vast majority of the programmers are saying that it really is changing everything. Maybe it's not yet ready for your industry, but it's a fundamentally different world (and attitude) for ours.

    You just can't be stupid about it. Re-interate on rules to fix bad behaviors, AI and human code reviews together, don't burn tokens just because you can. And you can't say stupid shit like "Want to interview my agents first?"

    Shit, speaking of interviews, it's all over the HR world, too. Agents writing resumes and the agents that read them for filtering.

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    • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If you're automating the wokflows, what do they need you for?

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    • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This is Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, which has been on the AI enshitification journey for a while now.

    Sal Khan in 2023 proudly proclaimed that AI could revolutionise EdTech with highly personalised tutoring, and made Khan Academy go all in on AI with their Khanmigo AI assistant tutor. Part of this ted talk explicitly has the AI pretend to be historical figures for assistance in history.

    Three years later, Sal Khan admitted what all teachers already knew: that the AI tutor failed because most students didn't even both with it. Digging through forums reveals the similar suite of reasons: factual inaccuracies, inability to understand basic arithmetic, and opaque pricing based on "usage."

    Didn't stop him from partnering with big tech to offer $10K bachelor degrees though.

    Sal Khan: How AI could save (not destroy) education | TED Talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_how_ai_could_save_not_destroy_education

    Why Sal Khan is rethinking how AI will change schools - Chalkbeat - https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/04/09/sal-khan-reflects-on-ai-in-schools-and-khanmigo/

    This CEO has teamed up with Google, Microsoft, and McKinsey to build an AI degree that could rival Harvard—and it will cost only $10,000 to attend | Fortune - https://fortune.com/2026/04/15/sal-khan-ceo-khan-academy-google-microsoft-ted-ets-higher-education-institute-bachelors-applied-ai-gen-z-college-upskilling/

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    • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    If he's so successful, why is he going to so many job interviews lately?

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    [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

    I mean, I actually kind of agree with the first two panels, especially if AI use is kept to a minimum.

    Also, the yellow and white text used randomly instead of to indicate the speaker drives me nuts.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    What are you automating?

    I must've watched about 5 videos about OpenClaw/Hermes and I still have no clue what value add this brings to a normal person's life

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Tiktok and other pathological short-form video usage on phones has seriously fucked over subtitling in general. Random highlight colors, burned in subtitles on videos that you can't turned off, subtitles on videos that flash every word spoken, one fucking word at a time.

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    • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Can I get a lil help

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