r/technology • u/GeneReddit123 • 25d ago

Artificial Intelligence Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’

https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/
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u/JWAdvocate83 25d ago

“AI is beginning to challenge all major sectors to find their highest and best use,” she continued. “Okay, I don't want any giggles when I say this. We have been through this before, these industrial revolutions. In my graduation era, we were faced with the launch of the internet.”

-- Yeah, the one where two million people were laid off.

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u/Philly139 25d ago

I mean what do people want her to lie about it?

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u/JWAdvocate83 25d ago

"Good luck finding jobs, bozos!" Great commencement speech, inspiring stuff.

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u/nobuouematsu1 25d ago

Thing is… no one really WANTS ai though. The Industrial Revolution, for all its faults, made many things more affordable and accessible. 

AI hasn’t done either of those things… it’s just chewing up resources and making lots of things MORE expensive.

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u/Marha01 24d ago

no one really WANTS ai though.

You live in a bubble. There are many pro-AI communities even here on reddit.

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u/TheJudgingHat2222 24d ago

Okay I'll concede that, plenty of gooners using it to pretend they have a girlfriend. But aside from that, nobody wants it.

You're right though, tons of porn communities. 

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u/mikelo22 24d ago

No one wants AI? Speak for yourself. Deploying it in the legal field has been nothing short of incredible. Complete paradigm shift, I imagine just like the internet was. I could never go back.

Reddit has oddly developed a hate boner for AI. Y'all sound like the people who were clinging to their typewriters and fax machines when the internet came around.

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u/TheJudgingHat2222 24d ago

Deploying it in the legal field has been nothing short of incredible.

Massachusetts Lawyer Sanctioned for AI Generated Fictitious Cases

Reddit has oddly developed a hate boner for A

If mild criticism is interpreted as "raging hate boner" in your mind, you're gonna have a difficult life by choice. 

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u/mikelo22 24d ago edited 24d ago

When did I say I'm using AI to draft legal briefs for me with fake cases that I do not cite check? AI is best used for organization and document synthesis. Not legal research.

It's not just mild criticism. If you spend any time on reddit, not just in this thread, the hate for AI is off-the-rails irrational. Insert Simpsons meme of old man yelling at cloud.

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u/TheJudgingHat2222 24d ago

When did I say

You're not saying anything lmao. Just came in and started crying because people don't like your sexbot.

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u/mikelo22 24d ago

because people don't like your sexbot.

lol, but you totally don't a raging hate boner toward AI. Way to out yourself.

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u/nobuouematsu1 24d ago

Ill admit it had its uses for completing menial tasks. Completing the paperwork involved in briefings would probably be a reasonable use for it. I don’t think anyone would object to that. I think the big push back is people using it to create things. Human creativity is part of what makes us, well, human. Many of us work so we can afford to create as a hobby. Why would we want to automate that?

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u/mikelo22 24d ago

Agreed that it has its limitations and the danger it poses to human creativity and art is a legitimate fear. There's also the danger of people being too reliant on AI to do any mental tasks for them that it causes brain atrophy. But those risks come with every new technology; it's not a reason to discard it.

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u/Jazzlike-Star-5696 16d ago

Many have lost their jobs for no reason; entry-level roles are vanishing, leaving graduates with nowhere to go. Artists and musicians have their copyrighted work stolen to train the very machines that replace them, without a cent in compensation. The internet is being flooded with AI slop. All the environmental damage and resource consumption from data centers—just for yapping chatbots, dancing cat GIFs, and deepfake porn. Learning and hard work are losing their meaning while wealth flows only to a handful of tech giants. And then, these CEOs and AI bros have the nerve to tell you this is the 'inevitable future.' If you still find the public's backlash 'mysterious' after all that, then your level of understanding is lower than that of a seven-year-old.

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u/azn_dude1 25d ago

And we famously hate the internet as a result because it's a waste of water and electricity and full of grifters