• SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    I recently attended a presentation given by Microsoft to my multi-academy trust which outlined a bunch of flavours of Copilot in the works that they are intending to sell to schools, primarily as a substitute for one-to-one tutoring. As if these bullshitting text prediction models weren’t bad enough when poluting web content with nonsense assertions, we are now going to automate misinformation in education? This is, to me, a completely terrifying prospect.

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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      2 months ago

      The key point is that nobody involved has the slightest interest in any of the young humans at the pointy end.

      This idea is the apotheosis of ghastly Nu-Labour thinking, and they’ve been in a month and a half.

      • UnseriousAcademic@awful.systems
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        2 months ago

        If they can somehow shoehorn in Blair’s favourite ID card scheme into it they might win some sort of internal Labour bingo game.