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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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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago

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