Jenne (she/her): Well of course it did because that’s the goal of these ai bros

“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.

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

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