AI slop: coming to a classroom near you?

Is there bad news on AI in education?
There is ALWAYS bad news on AI in education!

Chalkbeat earlier this month had a look at the AI slop on the Teachers Pay Teachers website: 

The poster depicting famous inventions by Black figures throughout history should show the invention George Crum is widely credited with: the potato chip.

Instead, the picture labeled with Crum’s name shows a firefighter in an ominous gas mask next to a stop light. There are no potato chips to be found.

But there is a typo-ridden description of Crum that reads: “Created the popular crispy snack when a customer is polated thinner fried potatees.”

For $1.99, they could also download an alphabet coloring worksheet missing the letter F. And for just $1.50, they could get a poster of U.S. presidents that uses an asteroid hurtling toward anti-slavery demonstrators to illustrate the idea that Martin Van Buren was resilient.

Setting aside the issues I have with TPT in the first place--which are many!--this is absolutely going to find its way to the classroom, because the reason teachers are on there are presumably because they don't feel they have time for whatever it is they feel they need and the site--of course!--isn't really managing it: 

In an emailed statement, Paul Mishkin, CEO of IXL Learning, TPT’s parent company, wrote that the company uses “algorithmic tools to identify and demote stores associated with low-quality, AI-generated content.”

Right. Sure. 
By the way, someone please tell Chalkbeat that one cannot "interview" ChatGPT. 

This of course is only one of the many ways in which any use of this mess is harming to children. For those who didn't catch Ben Riley looking at Anthropic's "skin" of Claude for teachers, please take a look. 

...individual teachers need to bear the responsibility for ensuring compliance with FERPA, even though the law itself applies to school districts and other legal entities (not individual educators). Or as Claude puts it:

Right, so Claude for Teachers is FERPA compliant if and only if teachers take on the work of anonymizing their student data each and every time they enter it into Claude.

The same teachers who don't have time to develop classroom resources, per TPT, and that are using Claude to 'save time' are going to anonymize their students every time they use it?

Could we both not break federal privacy laws and provide students with accurate curricula, please?