Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
Napster, the file-sharing service that once disrupted the music industry, has relaunched with a focus on education technology, offering AI tools that can create digital replicas of teachers.
Why this matters: A digital clone of a teacher is not just a chatbot with a friendly face. It is a system trained on how a specific person speaks, explains, and responds. That person's likeness and voice become a product. Students interact with a simulation instead of a human. Schools should be asking who owns that clone, who profits from it, what data it is trained on, and whether teachers actually agreed to any of this.
Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy
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