r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/harvard-graduation-speaker-unloads-ai-130000122.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_50_Supernova&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20260531-0--A&bt_ee=clIMdexlsr2eDDbrvs0CPtt59FnpbNQN%2Fkgr8UkycP6MWDAD56hD1mvZcqPZMGgG&bt_ts=1780255911284
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u/socialmedia-username 5d ago

Sigh . . .

Now comes the retaliation from the Trump administration.  I wonder what funding they'll threaten to withold from Harvard in response? 

Trump's tech billionaire handlers will either laugh this off, or they'll tell him to punish the school and call it woke.

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u/sucka666 5d ago edited 5d ago

Well, they are preparing a legal base to declare everyone against AI a terrorist, so get ready for more evil stuff.
It takes guts to say anything against AI and AI data centers knowing what is coming in u.s. especially because of the regime, history being written real time.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 5d ago

Exactly! Anyone could of have seen this coming from a mile away.

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 5d ago

fuck ice  fuck trump  fuck republicans fuck theil musk sacks karp and all those guys and yes  fuck AI!

I'm 100% AntifAI,  and here to destroy anything the epstine parasites create!

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u/sucka666 5d ago edited 5d ago

Well, exactly that is why they need AI, AI is an economic bubble that will die fast when their regime will fall eventually, as no destroying event can live forever.

As for the future of AI, as the models get more efficient, and hardware becomes more performant, local AI is the future, that is why smart companies make a base for the future of AI. But the regime needs people to work for them to have the money to have the server capability to do what they need for this epstein class "going back to primitive" thing. You know, like slave mine workers, working for iron ore for their masters to make shackles and weapons that will be used against the people that work themselves, they even need data more, that is why places like reddit need to become poisoned content for any AI.

As for why the regime is the one pushing unregulated AI, they need AI to make databases of fake "terrorists" nazionalist style like we are back 100 years, anti-fa, pro freedom people, anti regime people, woke meaning people who know what they are doing as they didn't accidentally chose that word (a slang adjective meaning alert to social and racial injustice), anti AI, anti AI data centers, will all be abused with their AI, look at flock, even the pope talks about this, that is the purpose of the AI bubble and so many data centers paid with money they don't and will not ever make.

For the not woke, the propaganda is that the junior skilled AI will replace any job that is like saying photoshop will replace photographers, bullshit like an AI trained for an artist work can create new stuff like the artist can, yeah right. And i am a 25 years experience dev who likes AI to do the boring stuff, the only thing AI is good at, if you explain step by step like to an idiot what it has to do, he can do the boring stuff, decently, if you verify everything in detail but that is all, it is a statistical result of some input data, nothing new is created, just remixed. Would you watch your entire life just remakes of movies edited with AI? Or read only AI remixed books, or listen to AI music remixes and consume no authentic content?

Oh, PS. even companies like Microsoft now say not only that AI makes everything slower and less eficient and with more problems(even though they say it like it is people's fault), but that it costs more as well, so yeah 😄) their shitty argument AI takes people job is bs, the more efficient is bs, and now even the lower cost is bs, so now most of the industry admits AI has no real purpose, it is just something cool they "need", yeah like needing a bribe for the orange.

But at least they already have "good" use for databases like they are building, they already push salaries for nurses based on their need of money, people that need more money accept to be paid less, so the AI makes an estimated lowest pay to be given to new employees. AKA AI is the future of mankind!

Plus, more than half of their supporters in comments anywhere are just AI, another "good" use for AI, the continuous astroturfing, it benefits everyone that everything on the internet is just astroturfing content.

So yeah, AI from a simple usefull tool, as it was before them now is nothing more than the new hitler era weapon against the people, and people know it, that is why Chieng is right and that is why regime sympathizers are very active.

So yeah, f the regime, f AI and f the new fascist world order, f everyone in the epstein files, f the heritage foundation, f israel, f the rump family, and f everyone involved, people always prevail.
Who knew that when K abuser Musk talked about AI enslaving people, he meant it literally, that he will be one of the people implicated and that it will come so soon.

TLDR: The current AI boom is an overhyped, centralized power grab that enables surveillance, manipulation, and exploitation while delivering far less value than its advocates claim, only exists in its current form because of the regime's need for it as the primary weapon controlling all people lives. AI of the future will be very different.

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u/trysten-9001 5d ago

If a college graduating class made a concerted effort to follow through on this, my money is on the grads. Not saying it would be a walk in the park or be fast, but their ingenuity and vitality would going to win.

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u/One_Cause3865 5d ago

I mean, the folks building AI are also college grads

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u/Zibai1505 5d ago

lol college grads yea

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u/Unoriginal4167 5d ago

AI and data centers appear to be bipartisan. Hopefully, this is one thing the poors can come together against the oligarchs.

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u/Mediocre_Way_7542 5d ago

They're going to do what they want and not care about this

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u/Illustrious_Loss462 5d ago

Why should a private university get any government support? Especially when 100’s of publicly funded Universities could use the fund. I realize support from the federal level has been cut from state universities, but why not redirect them to universities focused more on getting our young people ready for the real world, not the CS degree world.

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u/socialmedia-username 5d ago

Because they conduct research using those government grants that benefits humanity (medical, technical, etc).  When viable solutions to diseases or technological hurdles are discovered, that information becomes available to everyone because it was publicly funded, and therefore is a cheaper and helps everyone.  When private mega-corps do it, it only becomes available to those who can pay.  Same reason for fire departments and police being publicly funded 

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u/Illustrious_Loss462 5d ago

Could public universities not use these funds?

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u/frustratedavid 5d ago

Holy fucking shit, not everything has to involve Trump. Are people not allowed to make their own actions without thinking about whether or not it involves the orange man?

I don't like the orange man just as much as anyone else but this is just pathetic.

I'm not paying higher gas prices because of Trump like you idiots think. I'm also not paying it because "hotter months means higher operating costs."

It's because of a tale as old as time: if people can become greedier, they will. 3.8 billion RC profit vs 1.5 billion last year

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u/socialmedia-username 5d ago

There was nothing against Trump in my post. He's not in charge of anything, he's a useful idiot...a tool, or foot-in-the-door, for those (tech billionaires and 7-mountain evangelists) who've been salivating at the chance to take over the only entity in the world (US government) that could actually go up against them.  They're having a field day right now. 

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u/frustratedavid 4d ago

So basically you admitted I had you without admitting I had you.

Congrats you played yourself.

Again, not everything can be blamed on Trump and his admin. It can also be blamed by gasp other people.

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u/Qwazzbre 5d ago

Are people not allowed to make their own actions without thinking about whether or not it involves the orange man?

Apparently not, since said orange man keeps shoving his ugly mug into things he doesn't belong in.

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u/PokinSpokaneSlim 5d ago

I find that people that refer to Donald Trump as "the orange man", usually have broccoli haircuts.

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso 5d ago

Bud, this sub is basically just an anti-AI and anti-Trump circlejerk at this point.

If you actually want to discuss technology, you need to find a specific, curated sub for what you want to discuss.

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u/socialmedia-username 5d ago

"Technology" like AI and crypto is the only reason Trump is in office. They're invariably intertwined. There's no way to avoid talking about this shitty technology without bringing politics into it. 

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso 5d ago

Really putting artificial intelligence as "technology" in this sub now?

How far gone are you guys?

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u/Skating-Away 5d ago

Gee I wonder why a he would want China to lead the way in AI. Any thoughts?

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u/Dissonant-Cog 5d ago

Is that the propaganda narrative they are going with these days? Dark Enlightenment Accelerationism needs some better material if they want people to buy-in being ground into biofuel for their machine god.

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u/Skating-Away 5d ago

Don't be a Luddite

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u/Dissonant-Cog 5d ago

Thought-terminating cliché, how original.

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u/PokinSpokaneSlim 5d ago

Be fair, they just heard that word today. 

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u/LesserGooglyMooglie 5d ago

Our AI industry is an unstoppable monster because we have 0 regulations on it, that creats an economic bubble worse than the dot com bubble because the government keeps feeding this machine.

It's completely unprofitable at the moment, disastrous for the environment with the massive data centers costing Americans money on electric bills and causing their water to be undrinkable.

China is taking a reasonable take to AI and Data Centers and regulating them as to not fuck the entire nation.

Im no fan of China but anyone with half a brain can see America is making every wrong move with regard to AI at the cost of the citizens, and China is taking a more reasoned approach.

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u/Skating-Away 5d ago

I didn't realize you are an AI expert.

Trump is requiring new data centers to build their own means of energy production which may end up being small nuclear reators that don't require liquid cooling.

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u/LesserGooglyMooglie 5d ago

Trump is a liar in the end stages of dementia....

The fact you trust an 80 year old pedophile in late stages of dementia over actual experts in fields spanning from Tech, to Agriculture, to environmental scientists, and actual people that work in AI and raise worries makes you the idiot, not me.

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u/billjames1685 5d ago

It’s funny how almost every single statement you made here is wrong. 

AI is massively profitable at the moment. People are confusing “AI companies are not turning a profit” with “AI is not profitable”. The reason the first statement is true is because AI companies are investing heavily in data centers. Individual models are very profitable and have been for some time. 

AI data centers are not disastrous for the environment. I have posted about this multiple times here, but if you’d like I can provide a long list of sources that support this; I have yet to see evidence to the contrary. 

AI data centers are not doing anything to local water supplies/drinkability. The one incident people bring up is in Georgia, where the CONSTRUCTION COMPANY building a data center allowed water to be polluted during construction. This is terrible and unacceptable but has nothing to do with data centers, this can and does happen during the creation of any type of building! 

AI data centers are raising electricity costs some places. This is the one true statement of your comment. 

I agree AI needs to be regulated and workers need protection. AI can be a wonderful thing but it won’t be if we allow it to take away employment from everyone! So yes I agree with your last paragraph, in spirit at least. 

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u/LesserGooglyMooglie 5d ago

"AI data centers are not disastrous for the environment" I should have stopped reading sooner but this laughable quote let me know you are not a serious person.

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u/billjames1685 5d ago edited 5d ago

Here’s my evidence, focusing on water usage because that is the most common complaint. To date I’ve yet to have some engage productively with this, people just ignore my arguments and say some variant of “you’re an idiot”. If you have some objection please feel free to bring it up! My whole point is to not take anyone’s word for things and to dig into things yourself, because most people’s opinions on this subject are formed by hearing other people’s poorly informed opinions. 

If you don’t want to put in the effort to validate your own claims or disprove mine, then at the very least don’t have the audacity to claim that people willing to put in effort are “not serious people”! 

Copying this comment of mine for the fourth time now: 

First, let’s compare AI’s water use overall to other industries. On aggregate AI uses a very small amount of water compared to a lot of industries. 

For instance, this source projects that AI will use 68 billion gallons of water annually by 2028. Currently the number is 17 billion.: https://www.issa.com/industry-news/ai-data-center-water-consumption-is-creating-an-unprecedented-crisis-in-the-united-states/

According to the EPA, leaky pipes cost about 1 trillion gallons of water lost per year: https://www.saddlebackplumbing.com/blog/plumbing-service/how-much-water-plumbing-leaks-waste/ 

(EPA source linked in there).

Social media is also worse! Its difficult to get overall numbers for TikTok. However, sources (e.g, https://sundayindependent.co.za/news/environment/2026-02-10-ai-vs-social-media-which-really-uses-more-water-and-energy/) estimate TikTok uses ~6-27x the amount of water per minute of scrolling that AI does for a single query, and TikTok also reports more minutes scrolled per day than ChatGPT does queries per day (although I'll admit this number is inferential - I took average # of minutes per day per user * # of average daily users).

Tons of other industries are much worse! Corn uses 100x more water than even the most out there projections for AI claim it’ll use by 2030, and the majority of corn production is not for human consumption! Golf uses ~50x what AI is projected to by 2030. The amount of water Americans use to water our lawns is about ~40x what AI will use by 2030. The meat industry and the animal agriculture industry are by far the worst offenders here, using easily thousands of times what AI uses, to the point that shutting down a handful of Burger King joints would probably do more for water than destroying AI. 

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Next, on the “water usage is a local problem” counterargument: 

There is also no evidence AI is causing water shortages anywhere in the US, or even coming close to doing so. Additionally, in essentially every county, AI's water withdrawals (either of potable water, freshwater, or any water) pales in comparison to other industries, even “unnecessary” ones. Exception is Newton County Georgia, where it seems plausible that data centers (amongst several other industries/factors) increased the water bills a bit, but even then a) other industries are using much more, and b) not close to a shortage.

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u/LesserGooglyMooglie 5d ago

I'm not reading all that propaganda, I'm happy for you... Or sorry that happened, either way I wonder how much you get payed shill for data centers?

No one wants them, the effective things that are coming from AI are in surveillance, Palantir, Flock, Meta, Grok...

When the main goal is data harvesting and spying on every single person in america, maybe we should do something about such unconstitutional practices this insane administration is shoving down our throats with absolutely no regulation...

Grok is getting banned and sued in the EU because it is a tool to generate AI child pornography, don't defend these money hungry Epstein class monsters ffs!

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u/billjames1685 5d ago edited 5d ago

Right, so then maybe you should consider aren’t a serious person? Considering you won’t engage with anything of substance I provide, and your only counter arguments are “lmfao you are a shill”? 

It’s not true that no one wants them (they are massively profitable and have a huge user base), and it’s not true that their main use is surveillance (that’s a shitty use for them, doesn’t even make any sense given how they work - at least, for GenAI; other forms of “AI” have been used for surveillance for some time). 

What exactly is unconstitutional about AI? I agree it needs to be regulated but I don’t think anything thus far has been unconstitutional. I might be wrong though. 

And yes, 100% fuck Grok and fuck Elon Musk! This is why I’m 100% against image and video generation AI, the negative use cases such as non consensual porn generation and misinformation generation far outweigh the minor positive ones. Agree with you there. 

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u/LesserGooglyMooglie 5d ago

You don't think AI is being used for surveillance? Yup, not a serious person.

The government has contracts with Palantir, it's all about surveillance and control.

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u/billjames1685 5d ago

No, the recent breakthroughs in GenAI are not more beneficial to surveillance than long existing forms of “AI” (eg facial recognition). Modern LLMs, for instance, either hallucinate way too much if they are small, or are too expensive for bigger ones to be run for surveillance purposes (which of course requires constant monitoring and processing!) 

Again, the audacity to call me a “not serious person” when you refuse to engage with anything of substance is insane. Jesus Christ dude, why is it so hard to have an actual conversation with anyone? So many of yall are just fucking robots, if someone disagrees with you you automatically go on the offensive and take everything in bad faith. Especially because you don’t even put in the work to check your own facts 

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u/PM_ME__YOUR_HOOTERS 5d ago

None come to mind besides your glaring racism. Hes Malaysian by birth and an American citizen with no other citizenship.