• SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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    17 hours ago

    At this point why even have school? Just reinstate child labor and quit pretending that you actually give a shit about kids.

  • TheDrink [he/him]
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    17 hours ago

    It will adopt a “human-in-the-loop” approach with “skilled guides” monitoring progress who can provide “targeted interventions” and coaching for each student.

    "We're going to have underpaid, understaffed, unaccredited and non-unionized people doing most of the work that traditional teachers do."

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    15 hours ago

    I really feel like this is going to crash and burn hard because who wants this? Poor adults need their kids at school all day while they're working. Rich adults would just pay for a real private school.

  • WafflesTasteGood [he/him]
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    17 hours ago

    There will be humans, just fewer of them, and maybe not actual accredited teachers

    Jesus fucking shit, at least use real teachers for your teaching ai bullshit picard

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      17 hours ago

      Non-accredited is a death sentence for your education. Your diploma won't be worth the paper it's printed on. Colleges will automatically throw out your application if you didn't meet certain benchmarks. Even if you get in, you'll be stuck taking remedial courses for undergrad, except this time you'll be paying out the ass.

      Jesus fuck that's going to cause lifelong problems for those kids. Not to mention being taught the wrong things by AI. Regular teachers already make mistakes, but not "the air on earth is composed of methadone gas and humans cannot breathe the air, causing them to live underwater where the planet's oxygen is stored."

      • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]
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        6 hours ago

        This is great! The kiddos will know just enough to follow directions at the nearest Amazon-Disney-TraderJoes sweatshop opportunity center, but not enough to get pesky ideas about silly things like unions lord-bezos-amused

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    17 hours ago

    Oh boy, another item for my "Reasons it's baffling Arizona is still subjected to human habitation" list.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    17 hours ago

    They saw the dire state of education in this country and went "yeah, let's make that worse" agony-deep

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    16 hours ago

    recently i had to listen to someone talk about how great AI is the other day, that i personally would have assumed knows better. what they like about it is how they can generate graphics without knowing graphic design and written copy without having to write. they see it as a way for people without skills to generate work product that, prior to "AI" would have taken training. notably, this person does not have these skills in the abundance they would like, so this allows them to contribute.

    i understand the logic of that, but it seems like a strategy that bets long on platforms not enshittifying and short-changes any organizational strategy to address skill debt. also, when it comes to written copy, i think we've all seen examples of the sort of copy AI generates that is uninformative noise. few things are more frustrating to me today than trying to find information on something, finding an article that fully convinces the SEO of its worthiness, then reading like 4-5 paragraphs of good syntax and grammar thinking i am about to learn something and realizing it is just going in circles and yielding zero knowledge or analysis. i don't even know how to describe that frustration to people sometimes, because it feels like a lot of people don't do this sort of research in their roles anymore... even when they are supposed to. they, instead, skim things and now let search engine AI deliver quick answers to them.... quick answers which can be stovepiped by other AI written copy with good SEO in an ouroboros of fabricated bullshit.

    having these systems "teach" younger humans seems like probably one of the stupidest ideas i've heard in months.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      17 hours ago

      Dude was an enormous asshole to everyone and would fly off the handle over dumb shit for no reason, it's weird to see people still talking about him like he was nice to have around

      • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
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        16 hours ago

        His pure pure hatred of the techbro society was truly great to behold. The vitriol went a long way directed appropriately.

        He also killed Kissinger .

        To be clear tho, you're not wrong, he was the kind who would never disengage.

        • crime [she/her, any]
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          15 hours ago

          That was the only time the vitriol was directed appropriate though lol, he was a hostile asshole to comrades just as often

          • AtmosphericRiversCuomo [none/use name]
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            14 hours ago

            In addition to being an asshole, he was also either completely uninformed or just flat out wrong about the technology he was critiquing in the first place.