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What happens when you put business interests in charge, instead of educators.

“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

My first pass of that tweet read it as "AI eldritch company", and my brain was trying to figure out if it was run by eldritch abominations or if the algorithm was powered by eldritch abominations, and either way it seemed to track.