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.
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 “Venecky” and Louisiana as “Lookoong,” according to local news station WDRB.
“Mom, did you know that we live in Venecky?” Stacey Morris said her son joked to her on the drive home after his first day.
She didn’t know what her son was talking about until she opened the material and was appalled by the lesson, according to WDRB.
“Arizona is Arizone. Illinois starts with a V. I mean, it’s crazy,” Morris said, adding that Texas was spelled “Taxas” and New Mexico was “New Mizone,” while Oklahoma was morphed into “Olkchoma.”
The botched map was followed up by other errors, including a twisted periodic table of elements and an out-of-whack solar system. The former showed Magnesium with an atomic mass of -3.08 — an impossibility, as Futurism noted. The later featured incorrect phases of the Moon and misspelled the fourth planet from the Sun as “Marc.”
“We have to pay a $10 instructional fee every year to get this agenda,” Morris said. “But you’re making us pay for something you used AI for? That’s kind of silly, in my opinion.”
Some geographic names the AI did get right were way out of position – Cuba’s capital city of Havana was shown on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula.
The packet even featured entirely made-up territories. For instance, south of Vancouver – which was misspelled Venneouer – sat a region called “Beehie” bordering Washington State.
Morris told the outlet that she emailed the principal about the nonsensical material but never received a response.
“I spoke with the school today about inaccuracies in their agenda, and they are communicating with parents about the issue,” a school district spokesperson told WDRB.
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.