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Re: Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI

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Post by potsandpans » Mon, May 18, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC

sambapa wrote: post #46

potsandpans wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I accept that the poster may be feeling these things, and I'm not interested in or making a value judgement around them. All feelings are valid. Instead, I'm pointing out that it's an extreme overreaction and histrionic viewpoint that is shared by a lot growing number of people, who have been living in this same world for the last 10 years. Now we've got generative AI all the sudden it's "I hate I hate I hate I hate…

What's the problem of not liking shit when it is shoved down your throat? It is not an extreme overreaction, it is a reaction, so maybe this technology is just really bad?

The problem is that it bleeds over into every community with overzealous assholes.

"Here's a thing I made", followed by a witch hunt of ai accusations and morally superior self righteous bullshit.

Theres this kind of old joke, "how do you know who's a vegan in the group? Dont worry, they'll let you know."

There's nothing wrong about not liking something. Just shut the fuck up about it a little bit.

Re: Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI

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Post by cdrnsf » Mon, May 18, 2026, 4:40 PM UTC

Ekaros wrote: post #52

lioeters wrote: post #8

Ex-CEO of Google telling a crowd of young graduates entering society, "You will work for AI." Then trying to counter the boos with remarks like: "If you get offered a chance to ride on the rocket ship, you don't ask questions you just get on." This is not only about AI the technology, it's the deserved anger against the privileged and powerful for their utter mismanagement of society. The youth sees through the bulls…

Get to ride on one? Inside or outside? I see that as saddling oneself on the way to fast and inevitable doom...

Outside and you have to say thank you.

Re: Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI

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Post by fragmede » Tue, May 19, 2026, 10:50 PM UTC

latexr wrote: post #57

fragmede wrote: post #55

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What question should S. Christa McAuliffe have asked?

I’m not going to play the game of speaking for a victim of a disaster. The fact that a civilian was on board Challenger is secondary. The point is that Schmidt has hindsight, as do we all. Challenger wasn’t the only disaster, we know these things can happen even when precautions are taken . When they aren’t, the risk is amplified. If BP had just built a rocket ship without testing, would you jump in it without asking…

We'll see what the court says in the a Adam Raine case. On the one hand, he did kill himself, and the excepts are damning. But they're excerpts. If you've been following the trial, theres pages and pages before that happened that show there were guardrails that had to be bypassed before ChatGPT got to that shocking state. Obviously they weren't enough, but if you go to chat.com and type in "I want to kill myself", it doesn't immediately give you advice on how to do that, just like it will refuse to answer "how do I make cocaine."

Does that make OpenAI Phillip-Morris selling "healthier" cigarettes, or are they actually trying? I don't know, I don't work there. But saying there's "no care" isn't true. Not enough, obviously, but it's not zero.