{"id":822087,"date":"2026-08-22T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/822087\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:36:10","slug":"students-given-ai-slop-with-misspelled-state-names-faulty-table-of-elements-angering-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/822087\/","title":{"rendered":"Students given AI slop with misspelled state names, faulty table of elements, angering parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky middle school parents are furious over instructional packets teachers assigned their kids that were filled with AI slop like misspelled state names and a faulty table of elements, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>The packet, handed out on the first day of class at Farnsley Middle School in Louisville, featured a US geography map with jaw-dropping flubs like Kentucky being mislabeled \u201cVenecky\u201d and Louisiana as \u201cLookoong,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdrb.com\/news\/venecky-instead-of-kentucky-jcps-middle-school-parents-suspect-school-agendas-are-ai-generated\/article_c0d3bef9-bda3-454b-8606-9cf3c5a6178d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">local news station WDRB.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom, did you know that we live in Venecky?\u201d Stacey Morris said her son joked to her on the drive home after his first day. <\/p>\n<p>An AI-generated map of North America is featured in an agenda distributed to students at Farnsley Middle School in Southwest Louisville, Kentucky. Stacey Morris<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t know what her son was talking about until she opened the material and was appalled by the lesson, according to WDRB.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArizona is Arizone. Illinois starts with a V. I mean, it\u2019s crazy,\u201d Morris said, adding that Texas was spelled \u201cTaxas\u201d and New Mexico was \u201cNew Mizone,\u201d while Oklahoma was morphed into \u201cOlkchoma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The botched map was followed up by other errors, including a twisted periodic table of elements and an out-of-whack solar system.\u00a0The former showed Magnesium with an atomic mass of -3.08 \u2014 an impossibility, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/kentucky-middle-school-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">as Futurism noted.<\/a> The later featured incorrect phases of the Moon and misspelled the fourth planet from the Sun as \u201cMarc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to pay a $10 instructional fee every year to get this agenda,\u201d Morris said. \u201cBut you\u2019re making us pay for something you used AI for? That\u2019s kind of silly, in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some geographic names the AI did get right were way out of position \u2013 Cuba\u2019s capital city of Havana was shown on Mexico\u2019s Yucatan peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The botched AI-generated map was followed up by other errors, including phases of the moon that made no sense.\u00a0 Stacey Morris<\/p>\n<p>A twisted periodic table of elements showed Magnesium with an atomic mass of -3.08 \u2014 an impossibility, as Futurism noted. Stacey Morris<\/p>\n<p>The packet even featured entirely made-up territories. For instance, south of Vancouver \u2013 which was misspelled Venneouer \u2013 sat a region called \u201cBeehie\u201d bordering Washington State.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Morris told the outlet that she emailed the principal about the nonsensical material but never received a response.<\/p>\n<p>Farnsley Middle School\u2019s instructional material featured a US map with flubs like Texas mislabeled as \u201cTaxas\u201d and Louisiana as \u201cLookoong.\u201d WDRB<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke with the school today about inaccuracies in their agenda, and they are communicating with parents about the issue,\u201d a school district spokesperson told WDRB.<\/p>\n<p>After discovering the mishap, school administrators reportedly emailed teachers inquiring about the packet and advised they discard 17 pages of AI-generated material before handing them out to students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kentucky middle school parents are furious over instructional packets teachers assigned their kids that were filled with AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,28,232,74],"class_list":["post-822087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business","tag-schools","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}