All they needed was Creative Commons books … Cheap, easy to update, everyone can proofread, perfect. But no, fuck that, let’s AI it.
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2025
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We could have made free peer-reviewed open source school materials in every major language for that money.
My only question is: How could such a fundamentally stupid idea from the word go get any kind of hold? This must have cost resources, so why did they not just do a small-scale test run, and instead of throwing the first feeble attempts at children, have them thorougly vetted by professionals?
Four words: Fear Of Missing Out
Basically politicians who know jack shit about tech, let alone AI are being sold the tech way more than anyone else.
Ironic considering the country seeing itself the center of the arts and sciences, but really another chapter in its history of corporate dystopia.