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A lot of what GPT-4 can return is ideas based on assumptions and beliefs. Who chooses what of these to train the system? Those subtle ideas will then lead students who are mostly children.

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I don't think this is such a problem if it is teaching calc-3 and stays on topic. If it's teaching humanities I can see there would be more of an issue.

It will start with the "areas we can all agree on" and then scope creep will occur. This is the safest prediction I feel I've ever made.

Who is "we all"? For instance, the US is 5% of the worlds population. What we call the west is 20% of the global population? Not even to a quarter of it. Most of the population is outside the west. And, within the west there are a number of topics that people don't agree on which are more base.

The world is very diverse.

And that is any different from the school books we currently use how?

For one, school book authors create books. GPt-4 is the tech industry. You shift who picks the views.

>school book authors create books

Do you want to know how I know you have no idea how grade school textbooks are created in the US?

https://www.rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html

This was 60 years ago and it's got worse since then.

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