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."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/34500837

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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  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    And of course it’s called ‘Alpha School’, because a.i. and hubris go hand in hand.

    • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Maybe it’s Alpha like in software releases - full of bugs and prone to breaking completely.

  • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    My guinea pigs get to be lazy, get fresh veggies every day, and a cookie every night. When their pens are cleaned, my wife hides apple pieces or blueberries or carrots in their pen and they have a treasure hunt.

    There are worse ways to be treated.