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College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

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Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

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Post by QuercusMax »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #218
QuercusMax wrote: post #194

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The think your last sentence hits the nail on the head: it's good enough for YOU. You've essentially made a novelty song, and I don't believe you're going to be listening to it for years. The problem is when people spend 20 minutes prompting up a song and then attempt to make a career out of slop, and in the process drown out all the new creative works that aren't just remixed slop.

> and I don't believe you're going to be listening to it for years. Well...it's a year and a half old and I still listen to it on a regular basis. > and in the process drown out all the new creative works that aren't just remixed slop. It might be shocking to you, but maybe people actually like "remixed slop".

Lots of people eat McDonald's but that doesn't mean it's good for you and will support your nutritional goals, or even that it's good food which tastes good.

If you want to listen to nothing but slop I can't stop you.

Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

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Post by smallmancontrov »

gowld wrote: post #219
smallmancontrov wrote: post #195

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The last batch of kids was blaming their job woes on mexicans, women, and authority figures delivering mild punishments for shouting trans slurs. This batch seems more upset with the billionaires or at least AI. That's a big improvement.

There is more than one kind of kid at a time. And "graduated college" is a well document splitting variable for the clusters you mentioend.

Mmmhmm, and tech workers tended to blame Indians instead of Mexcans, women were less keen on blaming women, the woke percent never went anywhere near 0, and Captain Obvious is a full time job. Observations about the general sentiment of a crowd do not in any way imply uniformity, and it's frankly a bit silly to pretend that they do and then get upset about it.

Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

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Post by intended »

empath75 wrote: post #226
romaniv wrote: post #106

GenAI is the first technology that I've ever seen that is actively rejected by young adults and fervently pushed by people over 55. It seems Eric Schmids of the world think they (in their 70s) have more say about the future of these students than the students themselves. That is very unlikely.

This is pretty wrong. There are a lot of people who _hate it_, but it is still a minority. And older people dislike it more than younger people. https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/2/27/public-opinio... Feelings on it are quite mixed, but people who hate it and boosters are both incredibly loud about it.

> AI optimism is rising, but so is anxiety.

> Globally, the share of respondents who say AI products and services offer more benefits than drawbacks rose from 55% in 2024 to 59% in 2025, even as the share saying these products make them nervous increased to 52%.

Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

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Post by infraredshift »

dylan604 wrote: post #100
Ecstatify wrote: post #72

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Not the only issue people have issues with: > Ritter filed a lawsuit in November that alleged Schmidt, a former chief executive and chairman of Google, “forcibly raped” her while on a yacht off the coast of Mexico in 2021. > She also claimed they had sex without her consent during the 2023 Burning Man festival in Nevada. ref: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-03-06/former-goo...

Trying to wrap my head around how one can still be around someone in 2023 after what happened in 2021. This confusion no way justifies what happened nor am I blaming anyone. I just don't understand it.

If you are curious enough to read a book about this and related questions, Unspeakable Things by Brooke Nevils (who accused Matt Lauer) really opened my eyes on this.

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Post by dylan604 »

mghackerlady wrote: post #207
dylan604 wrote: post #108

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Other than the TikTok-headed part, the phrase could easily be applied to at least as far back as the 80s (NES) depending on definition of game-playing. Before then, there was foosball and pinball. Nevermind the kids that play card/board games. Also, while not staring at a phone implying smart phone use, it was often said about teens having a phone growing out of the shoulder from them constantly being on the phone wi…

And what is tiktok if not MTV on steroids

It's personalized and made by peers vs professional Hollywood productions. Of course, I'm thinking about original MTV and not whatever it evolved into with reality crap programming.

Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

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Post by threethirtytwo »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #157
forgetfreeman wrote: post #75

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"Not every second has to dedicated to "problems"." I was a lot quicker to agree with this sentiment in prior decades where we had notionally fewer of them, the big ones seemed better understood, and the folks managing the levers of power at least managed the appearance of competence.

I am a teen, so I want you to consider yourself in the shoes of us youngsters. you grind for 4 years, you might have student debt or a substantial loss of family income as it was invested in your education (I am assuming 30k$) Now the whole purpose of it was to educate you, now some people cheated their way through with AI or whatever in the education system. So the whole thing ends up going to the job market and wel…

But at the same time, I cannot disrespect teens by lying to their faces.

Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

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Post by mghackerlady »

MSFT_Edging wrote: post #22
Y-bar wrote: post #13

> “There is a fear in your generation that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating, that the climate is breaking, that politics are fractured, and that you are inheriting a mess that you did not create.” The total lack of self-awareness that Schmidt and his cohort of tech billionaires has significantly contributed to all this is screaming even louder than the b…

Tim Robinson in the hotdog costume loudly exclaiming "we're all trying to find the guy who did this"

God I love that video (sketch? I forgot where it came from but I originally saw it on youtube)
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