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"Sometimes I love a good “mashup” story hitting on two of the different themes
we cover here at
Techdirt. This one is especially good: Alaska legislators
relying on fake stats generated by an AI system to justify banning phones in
schools, courtesy of the
Alaska Beacon. It’s a mashup of the various stories
about mobile phone bans in schools (which have been shown not to be effective)
and people who should know better using ChatGPT as if it was trustworthy for
research.
The state’s top education official relied on generative artificial
intelligence to draft a proposed policy on cellphone use in Alaska schools,
which resulted in a state document citing supposed academic studies that
don’t exist.
The document did not disclose that AI had been used in its conception. At
least some of that AI-generated false information ended up in front of state
Board of Education and Early Development members.
Oops."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
