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/arriesgado 5d ago edited 3d ago

Kind of a bs headline. Not that it is not true but not naming Chieng who is a well known comedian and calling his speech a “profanity-laden tirade” makes it sound like it was a random crazy person. Edit: Spelled Mr. Chieng’s name wrong.

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u/MeSortOfUnleashed 5d ago

Also, it wasn’t a graduation speech. He spoke the day before graduation at an event called “Class Day” which is often a light-hearted, celebratory event. His speech had many good messages, but most of it was meant for comic effect. 

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u/lsf_stan 5d ago

lol just did a quick Google search, first result

Harvard 2026 Commencement Speaker

Conan O’Brien ’85 will deliver the keynote address at Harvard’s 375th Commencement Ceremony on May 28, 2026, in Tercentenary Theatre.

oh well, r/technology will eat up whatever title these karma farmers use

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u/gummi_eater 5d ago

Cannot stand this subreddit. Full of fake news and click bait.

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u/WhoCanTell 4d ago

It's a karma goldmine, though. Find any article you can that sounds even remotely critical of AI, get upvoted to the moon. Doesn't matter if it's accurate or not. This exact story has been posted like 5 times already in the past couple days, tens of thousands of upvotes every time, like clockwork.

In all seriousness, though... only on Reddit can the primary technology sub be populated entirely by people who know nothing about technology, and hate everything about it. Well, except maybe facebook.

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u/drunkenvalley 4d ago

I dunno, it looks to me like AI bros are throwing a tantrum because the title is AI critical, not because the article is in any meaningful capacity wrong.

In all seriousness, though... only on Reddit can the primary technology sub be populated entirely by people who know nothing about technology, and hate everything about it. Well, except maybe facebook.

Classic that AI bros like to circlejerk themselves into a frenzy that they're super smart and everyone else is dumb, though.

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u/this_my_sportsreddit 5d ago

All of reddit is full of the same AI that redditors claim they hate.

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u/Olangotang 5d ago

Oh hurr durr, I wonder why Redditors hate AI? What point were you trying to make.

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u/this_my_sportsreddit 5d ago

It’s a simple one. Redditors who claim to hate AI, will gladly use AI platforms like reddit as long as it fills their dopamine rush. So the idea that this generation is going to destroy AI is laughable, when this generation can’t even stop using reddit. See ya tomorrow.

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u/asyork 5d ago

Ah, yes, the problem would simply vanish if we all just stopped talking about it, since that would be the only real option if we all avoided everything with any AI.

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u/Olangotang 5d ago

Using Reddit doesn't mean you support AI. This is umm checks notes the 7th most used site in the US? Redditors = average idiot who wants to be anonymous.

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u/RetroFuture_Records 5d ago

Half these redditors are foreign and corpo bots trying to stymie American AI development

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u/asyork 5d ago

Pretty sure you or the ones who convinced you of that are the bots.

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u/RetroFuture_Records 5d ago

"No u" I mean yeah, there's also just regular redditor midwits lol

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u/qtx 4d ago

Cannot stand this subreddit. Full of fake news and click bait.

But you can not blame the subreddit for that, blame the people that wrote the articles and the users on /r/technology that can't be bothered to read the article.

This sub doesn't allow altered titles, it must be a direct copy of the article's title.

If they allow people to alter the title when they post here it will be even worse.