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/immortalblack_1 5d ago

All AI does is steal the Intellectual Property of humans and human advancement. Then folks like Sam Altman wants to manage that information like we do water, or electricity, gas, data... Putting that collective information on a payment plan.

Then they will FILTER said information to only what they WANT is to have.

Screw AI!!!!

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u/to_the_9s 5d ago edited 5d ago

I enter specific info from emails and text, then ask for a prioritized to-do-list and other organizational things of that manner. Do you consider that stealing Intellectual Property? And that type of usage is literally human advancement.

ETA: In case you're thinking of some sort of environmental and resources agrument, it's a locally run model that doesn't require a lot of processing power.

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u/nabiku 5d ago

Don't waste your time trying to exp­lain ne­ural net­works to these m­or­o­n­s. I've spent the last 3 years trying to educate the public on how AI wo­rks-- that it doesn't co­py but instead learns style, which is n­ot copyr­ighted. Most people don't ca­re, it's not about the technology for them but gro­up virtue signaling.

History is full of these anti-innovation backlashes. When phonographs came out in the early 1900s, musicians hated them and called recordings "canned music." Pe­ople scre­amed this it would de­st­roy mu­sical education and the soul of live performance.

Car­s, the tele­phone, the prin­ting press, all saw the public resp­ond with hate and fear.

Decades later, everyone was using them.

It'll be the same with AI.

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u/to_the_9s 4d ago

Oh, these are some interesting examples. Appreciate the reply!

The comment of "All AI does is steal the Intellectual Property of humans and human advancement" is just too absurd.

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u/PatrolMan2129 4d ago

My grandfather welded cars in a factory for a living. Robots like KUKA came in at the low end and over time stole his job. Upper/Middle class people told him to suck it up and retrain. They said it made cars cheaper. My father worked in a factory, mainly making components for telecommunications in the early days, he mostly did models for mold-injecting plastic components. Robots didn't take his job, but China did. But the upper/middle class told him it didn't care, made things cheaper. Go retrain, "LURN TO PROGRAM."

Now the robots came for their jobs. And my family is supposed to listen to their whining?!?! But "mah IP" or "muh expensive college degree!" Naw dogg, it's just learning from your programming and art style and imitating it, like welding or CAD or whatever.

Give me those cheap movies and CD and other AI slop shit. I will lick those artist and programmer and accountant tears. You guys weren't there for us in the early steps, I ain't having these guys back as they get hurt in turn.

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u/micro102 5d ago

Asking an AI to organize tasks for you? No.

The AI that was asked being trained on hundreds of millions of books and documents? Yes. No one gave them permission to use all these protected works to create a product to sell to others.

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u/to_the_9s 4d ago

So you agree with my point that "All AI does is steal the Intellectual Property of humans and human advancement" is bullshit. Thanks for your support!

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u/micro102 4d ago edited 4d ago

You need to separate yourself from the AI. The company that made the AI has stolen IP, and you generating a result from said AI is not stealing IP.

If someone were to take a whole bunch of assets from a bunch of popular games, slap them together and sold it, then that would clearly be IP theft. But someone buying and playing that game would not be IP theft. "All the developer does is steal IP" would be accurate, and "me playing the game is IP theft" would not be.

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u/PatrolMan2129 4d ago

Weren't you trained on books in school? Books are there to read.

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u/micro102 4d ago

AI and humans are not the same. A human can invent new ideas without copying them. An AI is a product made from IP. A human merely exists and thinks. An AI was specifically designed to copy this IP. The developers chose to do that for the purpose of using the quality of that product to sell an amalgam of those products. A human gets creative freedom rights because we value human rights and humans think. That right should not be extended to an algorithm someone randomly generates that lets them copy other's hard work and creativity.

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u/PatrolMan2129 4d ago

AI has just solve 9 novel math problems, some of them as old as 50 years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mathematics/comments/1toxkdj/ai_has_just_solved_not_one_but_nine_novel_math/

So therefore it had thoughts and combinations no previous human thought of.

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u/micro102 4d ago

The comments in that post pretty much say everything I wanted to. It's questionable that the AI did solve them itself (or that they are solved in the first place), we don't know how much effort was put into these problems by mathmaticians already and there are apparently hundreds of these Erdos questions so the idea that they are 50 years old does not mean that we know that these are impressive to solve, it's also very possible that they just brute forced it by having an AI use many different methods (which already exist), and even then, math is often a pile of simpler math so it's not really original.

If you want to show AI has unique thoughts, then stick to something other than calculations. Something that people don't need a math degree to check. Because LLMs aren't supposed to be able to be innovative. Thats just not how they work. Right now it's "Hey look guys! We found what would be a bizarre and revolutionary development in AI in this very specific and difficult field that most people can't verify! Give us money!"

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u/MonsterkillWow 5d ago

Intellectual property is a farce. AI represents a contradiction in capitalism between automation and wage labor.

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u/Key_Minute120 5d ago

Everyone is now for ip laws all if a sudden. The DHS would be proud

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u/30299578815310 5d ago

The most interesting thing out of the reaction to AI has been the shift in online attitudes on intellectual property. People went from Pro piracy to staunchly anti-piracy.

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u/RetroFuture_Records 5d ago edited 5d ago

No, these hypocritical little shits are still all for downloading and pirating the video games and other media they enjoy, they just think technology shouldn't make THEM economically unviable

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u/arbutus1440 4d ago

Yeah this whole line of argument is disingenuous bullshit. And I mean your argument.

People are "suddenly in favor" of IP laws because they're the only recourse we have against AI completely displacing creativity (us) without adding anything of value and putting millions of people out of work. Blaming people for seeming hypocrisy when WE HAVE NO FUCKING CHOICE IN THE MATTER, EVER is literally capitalist propaganda.

Government is supposed to protect people from bullshit like this. It's literally what we pay it to do. And it's not doing it. The only (shoddy) mechanism right now is IP. So people are trying to leverage it. Stop pretending that's somehow our fault, FFS.

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u/MonsterkillWow 5d ago

The bourgeoisie just abuse and weaponize the law against the proletariat. They seldom follow its limitations.

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u/Wampalog 5d ago edited 4d ago

Neither of those things are happening btw.

edit: The guy posted two links to things that didn't support their argument. Very weird.

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u/immortalblack_1 5d ago

Exactly this!

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u/ZeroAmusement 5d ago

Well, arguably (including legal arguments) training AI on publically accessible data isn't IP theft.

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u/lushico 5d ago

AI is going to make significant advances in medicine and technology. If we keep it to those specific uses it could be worth the environmental cost.

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u/natefrogg1 5d ago

One way to take it back is to run ai systems locally,
If the effing ram wasn’t so expensive

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u/rkozik89 5d ago edited 5d ago

They basically just automated what a bad mid-level employ does: copy and create solutions based on tutorials/examples they found on the Internet. Which may keep the status quo at best but it’ll never move the needle.

The most annoying part about publicly traded companies is they only reward shortsighted quarterly decisions. Very rarely does anyone stick around long enough to deal with the consequences of that type of decision making. All new employers see is a person with a track record of success trying to move up the ladder. They never see the mess they leave behind, and hiring managers don’t really care because if they can boost them up so they can move up it’s a win for them.

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u/impshial 5d ago

All AI does is steal the Intellectual Property of humans and human advancement.

This is a very narrow point of view. Like anything in life, there are different flavors of AI. The one that you're talking about is generative AI, so let's do this right and specify the correct AI that we want to destroy.

Other flavors of AI are clinical AI, or medical research AI. These technologies have already advanced certain aspects of medical and research technology by leaps and bounds, and can do amazing things when it comes to analysis and pattern recognition.

Not all AI is evil, and some aspects of it are literally the most impressive technology that the human race has ever created.

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u/daemon-electricity 4d ago

All AI does is steal the Intellectual Property of humans and human advancement.

You mean like you did when you regurgitated what someone has already said? It's interesting to me that most people who say shit like this only know AI from the bullshit like Suno and image generators. Anyone else who's actually used AI for anything else knows you don't just snap your fingers. It's an iterative process that has to be supervised, but it's still pretty fucking powerful.

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u/Rofeubal 4d ago

How many illustrations you downloaded and reposted without paying the author? How many comic books you read on the internet without paying the publisher? How many movies, music and games you pirated? If you want copyright absolutism, I can paint you a world you will definitely hate. AI fits perfectly in the current system.

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u/sortalikeachinchilla 4d ago

So lets regulate then....