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Spent $80 on an 'Ethical AI' certification course and it was a total scam
Signed up for this online course claiming to teach ethical AI governance frameworks. The whole thing was just generic slides about fairness and no real guidelines on implementation. Has anyone actually found a legit training program for AI ethics that costs under $200?
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blairc901mo ago
Wait, did they at least throw in a free pizza party for dropping eighty bucks on that? Cause I dropped $75 on a "Certified Ethical AI Practitioner" thing last year thinking I'd finally understand how to stop algorithms from being racist, and it was just 40 minutes of some guy saying "be fair, guys" over and over with no real examples. Like, show me how to actually catch bias in a hiring algorithm or something, not just tell me it exists. I feel your pain on this one, but I'd rather spend that money on a couple six-packs and figure it out myself than get scammed again.
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emeryj661mo ago
Right, the "be fair, guys" approach (classic, really). I've sat through similar stuff where they just preach at you instead of actually showing you the code or the data. It's like a chef just telling you to "cook well" without giving you the recipe. Eighty bucks for a motivational poster is a lot when you wanted a tool you can actually use.
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the_wendy1mo ago
That "be fair, guys" line really gets me. I once paid for a workshop about fixing biased search results and the guy spent half the time talking about how his cat liked to sit on his laptop while he coded. No joke, he showed us a picture of the cat and said "that's my little coding buddy." By the time he got to actual examples, the hour was up and he just said "well, the key is to think about fairness." I left more confused than when I walked in. At least with a pizza party you get something to show for your money.
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