Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."

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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  • bcgm3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    23 hours ago

    Technology has so greatly and so significantly outpaced the law for so long now, that we may never recover from unregulated tech bro shit from my youth, and now that I’m old enough to have school aged kids, it has only gotten exponentially worse.

    • “AI school?” A technological horror beyond comprehension
    • “65k annual tuition?” For ChatGPT school? ChatGPT is FREE, you freakazoids
    • “Our little Xyler graduated AI kindergarten with a 5.0 GPA and a Doctorate in brain surgery?” Please let there be a god and let him be vengeful I need to know that there will someday be an end to all this
    • plecks@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      It doesn’t help that we just keep electing people from the same but increasingly older generation.