Alpha School charges $75,000 a year to replace human teachers with AI. But behind the glossy “AI is the future of learning” pitch are broken lesson plans, an illegally scraped Khan Academy curriculum, and surveillance software tracking students even when they’re at home in their pajamas (creepy). Juan and Kate dig into the leaked documents… Continue reading
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How AI Hype Became a Belief System
Why do the biggest names in AI and tech sound like cult leaders?You hear messianic talk, like “AI will save the world or else,” and a whole belief system built around algorithms, destiny, and the promise that the Singularity will save us all.This hype is intentional, meant to draw in money and talent while covering… Continue reading
About Anthropic’s Super Bowl Ad
Anthropic just dropped a $7M Super Bowl ad to roast OpenAI, as Sam Altman’s comoany scrambles to monetize ChatGPT. Is this the first real AI ad war?Meanwhile, Sam Altman is punching back, calling Anthropic “elitist” while his own company stares down a brutal business math problem: only 5% of ChatGPT users pay. So… are ads… Continue reading
Moltbook: Fake AI Agents, Leaked Data, and a Viral Lie
Moltbook promised to be Reddit for AI agents—a social network where 1.5 million bots could debate philosophy, create religions, and plot in secret languages while humans watched from the sidelines. Tech leaders called it “the first sign of the singularity.” The internet went wild.Then researchers looked under the hood.What they found: security breaches exposing API… Continue reading