Leaked Documents Reveal AI-Powered Private School Generates Faulty Lesson Plans and Scrapes Data Without Permission
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Alpha School, an AI-powered private school charging up to $65,000 annually, is generating faulty lesson plans that internal documents admit sometimes do 'more harm than good.' The school is also scraping data from other online courses without permission to train its AI, according to former employees and leaked internal documents. Despite receiving praise from both media and the Trump administration, the school's AI systems are producing problematic educational content.
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AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal company documentation find sometimes do 'more harm than good'
scraping data from a variety of other online courses without permission to train its own AI
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded
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