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

“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.

The situation is somehow even worse than previously reported: "the tool processed student records in ways that likely ran afoul of L.A. Unified’s own data privacy rules and put sensitive information at risk of getting hacked." www.the74million.org/article/whis...

Whistleblower: L.A. Schools’ Chatbot Misused Student Data as Tech Co. Crumbledwww.the74million.org AllHere, ed tech startup hired to build LAUSD’s lauded AI chatbot ‘Ed’, played fast and loose with sensitive records, ex-software engineer alleges.

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Well of course it did because that’s the goal of these ai bros

Because why not do EVERYTHING as BADLY as possible when you’re a corporate vampire sucking money from our society’s education system for a get rich quick bullshit tech scheme? It’s not like education & tax dollars are important and should be handled with responsibility or anything.

I guess suing the company over this is one way to get their money back...

Who could have predicted etc etc.

This is definitely the first time this has happened. I’m sure it’s an aberration 🙄

"tHe tEcH iS jUsT nOt rEaDy! '

"Just round the corner yeah?"

Couldn't that 6mil have gone to...y'know...education?

Could have taught kids about combustion by just lighting it on fire but they did this

Tech: There is no public money that doesn't belong in VC pockets

the most transparent grift since NFTs

Burn money that could be used for ... like, anything else. Burn energy. Produce absolutely nothing. Invade privacy. This is the AI playbook. Should be studied in business schools (it won't be).

www.laschoolreport.com/future-of-la...

Future of LAUSD’s AI student chatbot in doubt 3 months after launch as ed-tech firm furloughs staff | LA School Reportwww.laschoolreport.com The future of LA Unified’s heavily-hyped $6 million Artificial Intelligence chatbot was uncertain after the tech firm the district hired to build the tool shed most of its employees and its founder le...

Even more damning than NYT piece.

(well, that doesn't surprise me...)

Collapses, ... or cashes out because the grift worked?

This is it.

It's educational in the sense that it confirmed earlier research that found that handing giant bags of money to a bunch of 'AI developers' is an excellent way to get rid of money.

Just buy them new textbooks, ffs

Fuck textbooks, guarantee debt-free meals for everyone.

Also this!

Not “fuck textbooks”. Books and meals are BOTH important. But yeah, fuck some of those textbook corporations.

Yeah, that is what I meant. Between my experience at a 4 year college, and what I've read about textbook companies since, 90% of it is a grift and/or an attempt to indoctrinate kids into not knowing certain things.

Thanks for clarifying. In that context, I’m in perfect alignment with you.

Fuck textbook companies 110%

So, did this “contract” not have performance checkpoints before any payments were awarded??

Performance checkpoints are only for teachers. Ai bros need no oversight.

Ah! Sounds good in theory but in practice it could cost you $6 million. 😉

Speedrunning the grift

Looking for non paywalled and found the exciting inauguration press edsource.org/2024/lausd-l...

LAUSD launches Ed, the nation’s first AI ‘personal assistant’ for studentsedsource.org The Los Angeles Unified School District's new artificial intelligence tool will be able to accommodate students in 100 languages.

"Collapsed", right.

Bros never finished reading The Diamond Age 🙄

I have an AI girlfriend but she doesn’t go to this school, she’s hosted on a Canadian server

My understanding is it only a fraction of the $6 million had actually been paid.

Hopefully. Also: whatever fraction was paid was still too much.

NYT must've waited a few days so it'd sound like their scoop instead of the L.A. media's...

AllHere Ed chatbot source code outlines how prompts are processed on foreign servers by a Microsoft AI service that integrates with ChatGPT. Seven out of eight Ed chatbot requests are processed outside of the United States. www.laschoolreport.com/whistleblowe...

Whistleblower: L.A. schools’ chatbot misused student data as tech co. crumbled | LA School Reportwww.laschoolreport.com Just weeks before the implosion of AllHere, an education technology company that had been showered with cash from venture capitalists and featured in glowing profiles by the business press, America’s ...

ai chatbots are today's tamagotchis

Just pay teachers living wages Jfc

Oh no

HUGE SUCCESS

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