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'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 week ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

/hj

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

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's it supposed to mean?

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hilarious Joke, maybe?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

This is the internet, so obviously it means handjob.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

"half joking"

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"half joking"

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you!