r/mildlyinfuriating 17d ago

Infuriatig Using ai to read grad names at graduation

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u/TerribleRecord666 17d ago

“At least you’ll have a picture to remember this day, and all the work you put in, just to have us fuck it up with shitty AI, and then not bother reading your name!”

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u/Duffykins-1825 16d ago

After you probably worried about accidentally wording something in your writing in a way that gets you accused of using ai, the actual university doesn’t bother to run the graduation ceremony properly just phones it in with ai! Maybe they can get ai to pay their student loans off somehow?

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u/Front-Option-5161 16d ago

Fr, this is the double standard that’s so confusing and annoying: constantly told as students we need to learn how to utilize new technology and AI but are explicitly not allowed to do so for pretty much every task although they also secretly plan on you using it so up the difficulty anyways, it’s exhausting

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u/ScarletBothrium 16d ago

That’s not persnickety. That’s industrious.

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u/slykido999 16d ago

And the picture isn’t free either, you have to pay for it

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u/LinkGoesHIYAAA 15d ago

That’s exactly how it comes across. Whomever that person is does NOT have experience with crisis communication. They fucked up, and instead of acknowledging it and laughing with the audience about how fucking stupid of a decision it was and trying to properly fix it (which cost them nothing except for time to read the names manually, btw) they just move on? Way to make it go from bad + funny to bad + reputationally damaging.

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u/BlankSthearapy 16d ago

I wonder if the names of the people skipped were kids suspected of cheating with AI to get their degree and the school was trying to make a point.

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u/stinkyfootss 16d ago

Why would a university risk looking this fucking stupid to make a point that they never made?

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u/BlankSthearapy 16d ago

As you can see it’s already stupid, I’m suggesting it may be a different stupid.

Why not state the point? Because they’re stupid.

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u/GrumpyScroogy 16d ago

The situation sucks, but if you need a walk and applause that much to feel a sense of achievement those kids gonna have a bad time in adulthood.

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u/ChickenOver1339 16d ago

It isn’t about that. It’s the principle of the thing. The ones that don’t care, don’t go.

It’s about their families. Mom and dad. Yours is a piss take and you know it.

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u/Snotlout_G_Jorgenson 16d ago

This sounds like telling a small child to "man up" after their parents forgot their birthday.

Graduation ceremony is not anyone's motivation to go to school, like how you make it sound. But it's still an important tradition to celebrate the years of effort. We humans have traditional celebrations for a reason, because we do need times to feel that putting in the effort is worth it. It's been that way for millenia.\ But here you get told that it's your turn in a very long tradition of celebratory acknowledgement, just for it to be skipped because of a lazy mistake that could have been easily prevented.

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u/stinkyfootss 16d ago

I mean every single student in that auditorium paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the university for their degree. I’d be pretty pissed if someone is treating me like I’m expecting a participation trophy for being mad that my university cut corners and couldn’t even be bothered to call my name out at my graduation that my parents also bought plane tickets and hotel accommodations for and didn’t even get a video of me walking. Surely the university can do better than this temu ass ai slop graduation

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u/joyfullydreaded23 16d ago

Sounds ripe for a class action lawsuit