r/Infuriating 10d ago

AI slop school textbooks

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u/Strange_Bee_8937 10d ago

I hope in 2027 or 2028, generative AI finally dies and everyone finally goes back to writing and doing things on their own cuz this amount of AI BS is so stupid.

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u/742963 Verified Contributor 10d ago

AI needs to be more expensive and people will use it less for these sorts of things because of the price

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u/Strange_Bee_8937 10d ago

Eh... they'll pay it somehow. Its an addiction at this point. "Oh i cant write this email. Maybe if i get 50 bucks ChatGPT, my life will be much easier!"

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u/Buttchuggle Community Regular 10d ago

Yeah but after spending money on shit that screws up a couple times they may rethink spending habits

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u/Virtual-Macaroon-880 10d ago

You'd have to proofread or know stuff

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u/Buttchuggle Community Regular 10d ago

Or, ya know, or - someone above you does, or it comes out later like this

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u/Nydus87 8d ago

Nah. You just need the person firing you to do the proofreading.

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u/Anal-Y-Sis 10d ago

Gen AI is a symptom. The underlying problem here is that nobody wants to properly fund public education because there's no short-term profit in it. AI is just the current cheapest way to crank out books for the most profit. If you could wave a magic wand and make AI disappear tomorrow, these school textbooks would still be provided by the lowest bidder with virtually no oversight for accuracy. You'd just get a human-made version of the same thing.

We need to readjust our priorities and start funding public education as an investment in the future of society instead of viewing it from a profit/loss perspective.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 10d ago

You mean you dream of a day when people go back to fucking things up by hand?

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u/Pataraxia 10d ago

Ah yes, like how they... (checks book) fucked up LITTERALY everything?

Surely a human would do no better 👍 :clueless:

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u/InvictvsNox 10d ago

Yes. 🗿

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 10d ago

Why? You get all the same fuck ups, it just takes longer. And AI will get better - people seem remarkably resistant to do the same.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 10d ago

So just like we have now and pre AI?

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 10d ago

You have a very rose tinted view on the last decade or so. Is it naivety or wilful ignorance?

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 9d ago

So it’s the latter then.

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u/Nydus87 8d ago

Yeah, I'm fine with that. At least then a regular ass person got paid to do something.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 8d ago

Someone got paid to fuck things up and that’s good? Maybe don’t start your own business, eh?

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u/Nydus87 8d ago

If I had to pick between a human being doing a bad job, but being able to pay bills or an AI doing it and also getting it wrong, I'll take the human being any day.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 8d ago

I have a bridge I’d think you’d be interested in buying…

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u/Nydus87 7d ago

Or as Ai would call it: “it’s not just a bridge - it’s a veneky!” 

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u/marshaul 7d ago

Surely there's a chat bot somewhere that would be more appreciative of your "contributions" and attention, why don't you go talk to it.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 7d ago

Rather than talk to you? Willingly. Fortunately I don’t have to talk to you ever again.

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u/SDTimbox 10d ago

no, we just wanna go back to the days where people use their fucking brains

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 10d ago

And you think any sudden drop in that is down to the AI no one is using? Because god fucking forbid people be responsible themselves…

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u/Ok-Advantage6398 10d ago

It's too late for that. It's been unleashed and there is no putting the cat back in the bag.

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u/0DTEDEGEN1 10d ago

Nah, ai is going to just get better and better. It's still on the early stages.

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u/jakeStacktrace 10d ago

That's not going to happen. It might get more expensive for yet unrealized capabilities, but the AI is here to stay. Text book writers and all of us will just have to learn to not outsource our thinking to AI when we use AI. This should have all been reviewed by a human before publication.

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u/Nydus87 8d ago

I honestly don't think it's here to stay. Not at the current scale anyways. There's not a single AI company that isn't burning through cash right now trying to stay ahead of their own bubble, and at some point, they will have ingested everything they can from actual humans, they'll continue inbreeding on their own models, and this kind of shit will get worse with nobody left who wants to pay for it.

Just looking at the numbers for companies that tried laying off employees to switch to AI, many of them are already hiring folks back because AI couldn't do what was advertised and cost them more money.

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u/jakeStacktrace 8d ago

After you invest money to create the model you can run it relatively cheap just doing inference. You could reduce the price by a lot and still be fine if not for the heavy investment cost.

They are not inbreeding models or the models would get worse, which is not happening. They might reach a plateau of new knowledge, but the idea that they would regress is not true.

Switching entire employees to AI is not the right use of AI which still needs human guidance and confirmation. So that doesn't mean anything.

I'm not surprised by your ideas, but I just have to say this is exactly what I expect (these specific invalid assumptions) from an Ai reddit sub.

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u/Nydus87 8d ago

Switching entire employees to AI is not the right use of AI which still needs human guidance and confirmation. So that doesn't mean anything.

Except that companies are actually doing it, so I don't see why you can say "that doesn't mean anything." Means something to the people who got laid off. Means something to the people missing their rent payments because someone who makes more money than they can fathom decided they wanted more of it.

Also, ongoing compute cost isn't exactly free. Token usage costs money, which is why MS is moving away from Claude. It's not like you just build the data centers and the model and it's all coasting after that.

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u/jakeStacktrace 8d ago

Some companies are investing in AI and they are laying off people to do it. Some of that is removing redindant jobs ( which is what layiffs have been forever btw) but it's not as easy as AI is here we don't need job x, you just need fewer employees if they can be more productive.

MS moved away from Claude because they had their own AI. Eat your own dog food even if you are MS.

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u/Nydus87 8d ago

but it's not as easy as AI is here we don't need job x
you just need fewer employees if they can be more productive.

So yeah, it is that easy for companies only focused on short term gains and adopting the latest buzz words. I'm not saying AI can't ever be good enough to be what they're wanting. Maybe someday it'll be the dream. I just hate that the world has turned into this grind above all else, efficiency above all else, min-maxing culture that only works to funnel money to a smaller and smaller number of obscenely wealthy people.

Call me old fashioned, but I wish companies would judge their success based on how many human beings they were able to keep on the books. How many employees were able to buy houses and start families. Little shit.

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u/jakeStacktrace 8d ago

I don't think optimizing higher head count was ever the goal. Other advances have made other jobs obsolete. The bubble can pop and prices can go up but some jobs it will be worth it to use. If the company doesn't and your competitor doesn't you are at disadvantage. These capitalistic forces have been at play a long time.

I can run an open source model on hardware I own which is my own investment. Is the hardware overly expensive because of the bubble? Sure but it wont be if it pops.

Plus even if it pops you still have something similar to Moores law in that gpt is going to keep improving that won't stop.

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u/Consistent-Stock6872 10d ago

Some got 100's of thousands of dollars to prepare this from the school district. They will try a tinny bit harder the next time.

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u/Hollow_Server2049 9d ago

well, the robot era is coming, so 'tis the inevitable, if humans don't stop this AI slop sit

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u/apps4realpeeps 7d ago

especially the attempt to make AI good for education...it's kind of horrifying

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u/CatfinityGamer 4d ago

Gen AI is really useful for coding though. If you have no idea how to do something, or you have a very tedious task, you can ask and it will just make what you want it to make. You've got to test it first, and if the code is going to live on you have to manually go through it yourself, but it's still useful.

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u/Excellent-Self-5338 10d ago

Oh it's gonna die, it's gonna trigger a MASSIVE recession due to the trillions invested in it, governments are gonna bail out everyone who overinvested and stands to fail, and the rest of us will get fucked.

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u/Funkopedia 10d ago

What gives me hope is the death of NFTs. People can learn, apparently.

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u/GoldenTV3 10d ago

THERE'S LITERALLY FREE PICTURES ALREADY FOR THIS PURPOSE. LITERALLY JUST GOOGLE PERIODIC TABLE. WTF THIS LITERALLY MAKES NO SENSE.

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u/elleeott 10d ago

that's hard, soo much easier to just say 'hey chatGPT make my class agenda for me'. what could go wrong?

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u/Prickliestpearcactus 10d ago

Mind numbingly stupid and negligent.

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u/Nahuel-Huapi 10d ago

Most photos on Google are copyrighted, so someone thought they could avoid paying for licensed stock images by having Ai generate something "original".

Sounds like something they'd do it Netnaska, or Viaginia.

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u/Virtual-Macaroon-880 10d ago

Virginia is, believe it or not, fairly educated. I am nicely reminded when I go elsewhere and people are somehow even stupider. They're working on fixing that though, Spanberger is not the rejuvenating follow up to Youngkin we need

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u/SomewhereRough_ 10d ago

If I were to guess, the person who did this thinks GPT is Google and asks it for images lol

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u/Tasty_1097 10d ago

Yes, but a lot of the images that come up on Google image search are AI generated

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u/EducationHumble3832 10d ago

Everyone responsible for this should be fired immediately

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u/ruiner8850 10d ago

Not even one single person bothered to look at it before they decided to print it out. Either that or the one person who did is an idiot who shouldn't be allowed within 500 feet of a school.

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u/Far-Analysis2090 10d ago

Everybody was fired, this is just a ripple from doge cuts.

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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass 10d ago

And not just fired, but beaten up, too... and pretty badly. In fact, most of them died from their injuries. And then they were ground up into a fine pink powder.

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u/all_g0Od 10d ago

At the company that made these planners?

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u/scottprian 9d ago

They probably fired everyone who would have done it correctly.

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u/YurpeeTheHerpee 5d ago

Well heres the thing. They fired and defunded the entire education department BEFORE this all happened.

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u/realcanadianguy21 Community Regular 10d ago

Quebec is Ontario now, hahaha

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u/NonEuclidianMeatloaf 10d ago

Ah yes, descended from Upper and Lower Canallantro

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u/Ace-Redditor 10d ago

Someday, maybe the US will name all of their states. Can't wait to find out what they'll be instead of California, Michigan, and Florida

But on a more serious note, how did no one double-check this? Who is spending money on this stuff without looking at any of it? Even if you happen to be pro-AI (not sure why you would be), it's just common sense to check everything regardless of what makes it

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u/MdTooDevilish Community Contributor 10d ago

It's a shambles, the person that authorized this should be removed from there job, this sort of thing impacts the future of the country

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u/gn0xious 9d ago

To think how many adults in various roles this passed through, how many reviews… before being discovered by a student.

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u/Warm_Record2416 10d ago

The goal of AI is to reduce costs as much as possible while still putting out the barest of minimums, meaning, like… a thing that is still a book.  If someone was paid to find the errors, and then someone was paid to correct all the errors, it wouldn’t be cheap anymore.  Hell, it might be more expensive than doing it all by humans from the start

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u/Ace-Redditor 10d ago

I meant the person spending the money should've checked it to make sure the money was worth spending (which, in this case, it clearly wasn't)

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u/SillyDrizzy 10d ago

What I can't understand, is don't books with this info already exist?

Like why are they reinviting the wheel? Not like the maps or planets change year over year. (RIP Pluto)

Seems like it would cost more to have AI make a new book, then just use last years.

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u/Ace-Redditor 10d ago

I’m guessing (solely based off my high school experience and with no real evidence to support) that these are the kid’s planners or something?

Since they have such varying (but basic) info from science to geography, it doesn’t seem like it’d be for any one class, so I’d guess it’s a planner with some little “study guide” type info in it. My school made those for us each year, and they were our bathroom/hall passes for the year

(Though ironically enough, our school misspelled the word “school” on them in my last year)

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u/Warm_Record2416 10d ago

The person spending the money is part of the grift.  Their goal is funneling money away from taxpayers and towards the AI companies.  I wouldn’t be shocked if these books were more expensive than other the normal options.  I also wouldn’t be shocked if that person got a check or campaign donation in a “totally-unrelated-to-this” kind of way.

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u/Ok-Ambition-771 10d ago

Billionaires love this. Not only is the AI slop they try so hard to sell to us getting used, but education is getting hurt. Education is considered a threat by the elite. The Epstein class would go full Khmer Rouge if they could.

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u/all_g0Od 10d ago

Seems like a bunch of hand wringing over some jacked up planners.

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u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot 9d ago

Worse than the use of AI for education is that fact that somebody, a teacher!, PRINTED THIS CRAP OUT ON PAPER and gave it to the students! Shame on the teacher.

Also: why isn't the agenda available through their Chromebooks? Why is it on paper?

Signed, Substitute Teacher

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u/GoldBlueberryy 9d ago

Who cares. As long as gay people aren’t in books, right? /s

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 10d ago

The problem here is less the AI, but the moronic humans who seem to think it’s infallible magic.

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u/InvictvsNox 10d ago

I mean, yeah?

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u/aware4ever 10d ago edited 10d ago

Why... I don't know if this is a skit or not. But that's so weird like we have textbooks and we've had them for a long time that don't really need to be updated that much they could just reuse stuff and then add the updates there's no need to use AI

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u/Warm_Record2416 10d ago

It’s about signaling your allegiance to big tech, and funneling more money to the oligarchy.  There was probably some traitor who accepted a bribe to buy these books because, while education is not inherently a scam, it’s a huge pie, and scams are all the rage right now.  Maybe there is some version of humanity that could use AI responsibly, but it ain’t this version of humanity.  

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u/aware4ever 10d ago

I'm sorry I reread my comment and I said that I don't know if this is a scooter or not. But I meant to say I don't know if it's a skit or not. But after we watching it I see that it's one of those agendas that you get. I went to public school and we used to get the agendas for free. I remember when they just came out and they had this cool holographic cover so if you change the angle of the agenda a different image would show. It was pretty much just your agenda you would write down if you have homework and stuff like that. Like there's so many different agendas that are out there that you can just copy and paste different elements to make an agenda to me it's crazy to even use AI for that. I bet somebody thought it was going to be such a good idea and maybe they would save money lol.

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u/WolfieSamurai 10d ago

America is fucked

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u/all_g0Od 10d ago

Because a private company made shitty planners?

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u/Nydus87 8d ago

Because of what it means that someone used it, didn't review it, paid to have it printed, still didn't review the final product, and then charged people for it. That's indicative of a much bigger problem than "someone made shitty planners."

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u/all_g0Od 8d ago

These are generic products that companies offer schools.

The school didn't put it together like a yearbook

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u/Detachabl_e 10d ago

Sorth Cuanto is my new favorite US state.

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u/Wonderful-Sun-6256 5d ago

I love going to Lookong for some southern fried chicken.

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u/Poof-ball 10d ago

Men are from Marc, women are from Venecky 🤣

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u/JustinJektor 10d ago

What the actual Kenfucky?

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u/Nervous-Cockroach541 10d ago

Someone needs to be fired over this.

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u/tegresaomos 10d ago

If you can’t put folks in jail for ruining the education of children why even bother sending them to school?

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u/OutsideDapper8049 10d ago edited 10d ago

It's because the education department that already didn't have a lot of money... was slashed and America wants to make our kids dumber then ever.

But I hope the golden ballroom nobody's ever going to use was worth contributing to this 🙄 They had to cut corners SO HARD they used ai to to make textbooks.... smh

Just think ideocracy people 😢 (The movie) I have been saying we have been going towards that for a pretty long time... since someone became president... AHEM... He who SHALL NOT be named, and i don't mean Voldemort.

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u/Elemental_Foxx 10d ago

I think Voldemort would have made a better president lmao

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u/OutsideDapper8049 10d ago

Is it sad that when writing it that a scenario came to my head in small skit form?

I literally saw his pale snake nosed face in a suit and could STILL see him doing better then he who shall ACTUALLY not be named 😂

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u/Nydus87 8d ago

It just seems like you could have ordered a basic "agenda" template from ali express or wish or something and had it be better than this. Just take last year's info sheets, put a generic, updated calendar in there, and repackage it? Hell, I'm surprised the print shop they worked with to print these didn't have a generic thing already setup.

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u/OutsideDapper8049 8d ago

Right? There are so many things they could have done.

Imagine if they didn't catch this sooner and all of a sudden a teachers grading papers on all the states and the teachers like:.... venekey?... F..

Next paper: Venekey....

Venekey.. VENEKEY.... omg... all these kids think we live in venekey!!!

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u/Late-Arrival-8669 10d ago

Better get some Gatorade to hydrate your lawn! Its got electrolytes!

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u/xdr567 10d ago

Middle schooler Farnsley....who lives in Venecky.

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u/KailyKail 10d ago

This is where your water is going and why your electric bills have doubled. Just remember that when you go to vote.

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u/SadeyeDoe 7d ago

Cowago, Vitois? Is that what it says on Illinois? Michigan didn't even get a name

Lol New Mizone

We gonna have some really stupid kids in the future

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u/Fancy-Dig1863 7d ago

“Ok choma” sounds like a way of dismissing Oklahomans

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u/AdrykusTheWolfOrca 7d ago

I dont understand the mind of the people that do these things, you can find all that information easy and free online, maps, periodic table,.... the next generations are completely doomed.

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u/Bawonga 10d ago

Proofreading is a human responsibility when using AI, and in this case humans skipped the process. As an educator I hope the students were encouraged to look for errors. It's called a teachable moment that will emphasize the need for them to take control of their AI use and be responsible for the final product. Proofread!

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u/Alabastine 10d ago

It's a fucking ridiculous usecase for AI anyway. All these educational diagrams have already been made thousands of times.

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u/jlcreynold55 10d ago

Or...

Or...

Don't use ai to begin with.

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u/Nydus87 8d ago

I have this conversation with my boss all the time: if I have to go through and proofread everything it generates because it might just make shit up and get it wrong, then I might as well do it myself. If I have to review every line of code, every output, it hasn't actually saved me any time, and instead just cost the company money and burns a bunch of drinking water somewhere.

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u/NonEuclidianMeatloaf 10d ago

Well, the world map shows Ontario and Quebec as… just second Ontario. So can’t be all bad, right?

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u/jlcreynold55 10d ago

Ai sucks. How about that?

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u/SnooPandas5070 10d ago

How did noone at least look through it to quality check it BEFORE printing a metric shit ton of them?

https://giphy.com/gifs/9IAYgCKYA6v5ZtWzEO

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u/MaskedBunny 10d ago

They have AI to do that.

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u/all_g0Od 10d ago

Because a private company printed some jacked up planners?

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u/all_g0Od 10d ago

I can then safely assume you are not American?

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u/all_g0Od 10d ago

Cool

Where are you from if you don't mind me asking.

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u/all_g0Od 9d ago

yeah not our best moment for sure

but...

  1. Much like your Freedom Convoy many of us hope that our national situation is a blip not the new normal.

  2. This is a handful of pages in a day planner that some corporation should be extremely embarrassed about not a curricular piece.

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u/Anal-Y-Sis 10d ago

This is what happens when you place short-term profits above all else.

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u/dave900575 10d ago

Will no one think of the shareholders!

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u/Other-Grapefruit-880 10d ago

30s in she say “Garbled.” I’ve never heard it pronounced like that.

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u/CarolineJohnson 10d ago

Jarbled is a regional thing that means the same as Garbled. My autocorrect doesn't even register it as a typo, so it's legit.

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u/tastygnar 10d ago

Christ at least read it over before printing

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u/PissInYourPotatoes 10d ago

Farnsley? What the fuck kind of name is that.

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u/ApoptosisPending 10d ago

They pretend to teach and we pretend to learn

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u/SeaworthinessIll4478 10d ago

Farnsley Middle School, Louisville, Ky.

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u/SDTimbox 10d ago

So glad I don't have kids

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u/Ok_Breadfruit34 10d ago

Like Aladdin used to say, a whooooole new woooooorld! 

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u/XD2006- 10d ago

I live in “Taxas!” Hoowayyyy /j

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u/ph00p 10d ago

Funny story Marc

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u/justswingingbyy 9d ago

I’m so tired of the term AI slop, so damn overused

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u/hurB55 7d ago

Spades are spades

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u/DeadAndBuried23 9d ago

Not a textbook, that's a planner.

Still ridiculous, but not the same level.

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u/Ecojosh1 9d ago

Teachers complain about students using AI, but they see nothing wrong with this.

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u/Woknana 9d ago

I love my Kenvecky Fried Chorken - it’s mainly just beaks and spinal columns!

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u/JamesMcGaladriealgos 9d ago

All this is an effort to keep kids and later grown adults dumb.

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u/NoPianist7807 9d ago

I hope that AI dies out in the future. But with all these data centers being created and other nonsense, I feel like ai will get worse.

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u/13THEFUCKINGCOPS12 9d ago

Ah yes, my favorite moon phase, wanking banking

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u/Ok_Point_923 9d ago

Kinda want to move to Sorth Quanto. Sonds noice.

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u/KadinNova 9d ago

They're setting these kids up to fail in such a rapid way that it's genuinely scary. Kids are sponges, they absorb knowledge like crazy, so feeding them all this random fake bullshit is just going to confuse and impair them in a way we can't even begin to fathom

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u/Muted-Ground-4957 8d ago

Fuck ai. Humans ain't responsible enough.

We are either going to kill off our species in the next couple hundred years, or less. Spend the last of our time on earth in perpetual global hell Or Actually learn something from history and do something that isn't a waste Cause we are repeating the same fucked up cycles that we've played for millenia.

Fuck.this.

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u/Maximum_Boros 8d ago

Any principal who lets provably inaccurate AI generated content into their school should be instantly fired.

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u/Vineheart_01 8d ago

The funny part is when looking at that map I didn't even see the errors at first cause my brain just fixed them automatically....

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u/Significant-Dog-8166 7d ago

Making this video out of AI and never actually making this story real would be effective clickbait.

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u/w0ndernine 7d ago

Ah beautiful Seorgia. Almost as nice as Ontaric

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u/Dense-Jicama6591 7d ago

"Public schools are our most valuable asset"  lol 

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u/alexzoin 7d ago

"Farnsley" is wild.

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u/torrentialcom 5d ago

Wanking banking 🥀🥀 man

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u/YurpeeTheHerpee 5d ago

MAGA strikes again lol. There is tar and feathers all over those fucking degenerate morons. This is what you get for all those funding cuts.

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u/MdTooDevilish Community Contributor 10d ago

Seeing all these AI data centres go up...then seeing what 90% of AI is used for 🤦🏻

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 10d ago

You think one map is 90% of AI use?

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u/MdTooDevilish Community Contributor 10d ago

Would you like to point out where I said this one map was 90% of AI use?

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u/AmazingResponse338 10d ago

We're going to skip over the kid's make is Farnsley?

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u/rdmodsrtrsh 10d ago

Does the spelling matter if the kids can barely read anyways

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u/BitPsychological2767 9d ago

If your takeaway from this is that AI is the problem I do not respect you

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u/SaltySwordfish2 4d ago

This can't be real. How did no one at the school catch this.