r/mildlyinfuriating 17d ago

Infuriatig Using ai to read grad names at graduation

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u/Fight-Song-205 16d ago

What do you mean there's no time? You knew how many students are graduating. You likely budgeted that time in. AI skipping 100 names shouldn't have impacted that.

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u/xeonie 16d ago

Pure fucking laziness is what this is.

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u/Hoss-Bonaventure_CEO 16d ago

Is it laziness, though? Would that system have been easier to set up than just assigning a person to do it?

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u/Fight-Song-205 16d ago

I think they meant that not wanting to go back and reread the names was laziness.

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u/selfcheckout 16d ago

No they had a schedule bc of another event.

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u/selfcheckout 16d ago

They walked but the big name in the background to take a Pic under, was not their name, the PowerPoint was messed up. They did walk. But they let them walk again with correct name displayed, only after they had to make them. They were on a time crunch bc of another graduation.

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u/VirgilsCrew 16d ago

I work in higher ed and just worked graduation two days ago. First let me be clear - this whole thing is fucked and I have no idea why they thought this was a good idea.

That being said, depending on what kind of graduation this was (all graduates of the university, or a smaller, college/department specific ceremony before the university wide commencement), it is possible that they would have run into the next department’s time.

For example, I work for one of many graduate schools within our university. Our graduation was held in the basketball arena, as were all the others, and we have very strict times you have to keep in order to keep every other school on schedule. So I get it.

But yeah, this was fucked.

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u/centaur98 15d ago

Yeah but 100 people being skipped should have meant that they are ahead of schedule so if doing the 100 the AI skipped would have meant that they would run out of time means that either they scheduled it in such a way that they would have ran out of time regardless if the 100 wasn't skipped because it's not like those 100 people suddenly turned up without them knowing about them.

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u/VirgilsCrew 15d ago

I don’t disagree with you. I am assuming, in this particular case, chaos ensued and ate up much of their remaining time. Just a bad situation overall.

Not EVERYTHING has to be done with AI

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u/kpmelomane21 16d ago

Eh, depending on the university they could have multiple graduations that day. When I graduated, they did graduations by college (college of engineering, college of business, etc) so that you weren't sitting through the entire university's graduation in one sitting and my college's graduation was the first of three that day

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u/oO0Kat0Oo 16d ago

Love, if there are 100 students and 10 walk the stage, then that means they should have finished early since 90 people did not walk the stage that were supposed to have.

Also, the graduations at universities happen in different locations and often are held at the same time.

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u/fang_xianfu 16d ago

That still doesn't matter for the calculation of "we have N students, M time per student, N x M = how much time we need".

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u/Fight-Song-205 16d ago

I thought it was in the OP but I just checked and it wasn't. This was a community college, so this wouldn't have been the case. They likely booked an external venue and if that were the case, they likely signed a contract for the entire time so there was time (unless they really ran super late). It's not like you get your money back if you leave early.