The kids are alright
this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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His face is much redder by the time he finished the speech.
"Gemini, write me a graduation speech how AI will replace their potential job prospects!"
If they'd just let the graphics card bubble pop with crypto, by now we'd be in the recovery stage and regulating digital securities.
But that would require admitting to irrationality in the financial system and putting in the work to fix it, which would be mildly embarrassing. So instead, the bourgeoisie have chosen the maximally embarrassing thing of being delusional about a crummy computer program.
And the bubble is now so big, the pop won't be a normal boom-bust. I half suspect its gonna end the dollar as reserve currency.
Dollar as reserve currency is long gone.
Yeah now it's Blackwell lol
Give people affordable healthcare
-No
Give people affordable homes
-No
Give people liveable income
-No
Give people a product marketed as pseudo-beneficial to humanity, while making yourself richer.
-Hell yesss
make computers expensive.
make travel expensive.
burn the atmosphere up.
Holy fuck. It’s their big day, and he uses it to pitch his fucking shitty fucking products. Read the room dumbarse
Ads on graduation speech. What a time to be alive!
How much of this is a rejection of Schmidt or his personal brand of AI and how much is a rejection of the future this technology is leading us into?
Since the boos are basically always after he refers to AI… I’d say most of it is a rejection of “AI.”
very few people know or care about who schmidt is or was
Butlerian Jihad When?
Whenever you're ready
AI aside, this was incredibly disrespectful to the graduates. He basically stole the ceremony to pitch his business. These people have no shame.
Kids are SO Ungrateful! WHY can't they just APPRECIATE the Epstein Class for ELIMINATING their Job Prospects like GOOD SEXY Kids?
-Rich People!
The kids are alright.
A billionaire praising AI as the next big thing doesn't belong at a graduation ceremony.
Imagine working 2, 4, 8, whatever number of years, then you get to a night meant to honor your accomplishments.... then you have to sit through a billionaire performing autofellatio in the form of an advertisement
Not just any advertisement. An advertisement for something that is likely limiting their job opportunities that they have been studying years for.
CEOs paid some marketing team to go out to all these universities saying we can get some giant CEO to come up and speak to your graduates about the wonders and excitement of the new AI future.
This is the second or third CEO that is getting booed at so far. I'm wondering how many more will come out as grad season continues.
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Because he's a motherfucker.
they need more fodder to throw at the AI slop industry to stave off the burst, thats what they are saying.
"The question is not whether AI will shape the world. It will," Schmidt said. "The question is whether you will have shaped artificial intelligence."
The problem with Schmidt's perspective, and to some degree that of the linked article itself, is that they take an "AI" future for granted. Like it's a given that we need to adapt to whatever the tech giants put before us.
But the thing is, the only place where (the success of) "AI" is necessary — that's in those companies' projected earnings. They sunk billions into a technology that could be a big deal in certain number crunching research fields, but to recoup the investment they marketed the product as an everything assistant for everybody.
The corporations pushing "AI" into personal computers, into workspaces, into public governance; they're huge, but they're hardly infallible. They may wish, as in "bet their savings", that this utopian tech dream will work out better than the metaverse ...but that's all it is.
They're just trying to talk their ROI into existence. We need to counter that talk, and that future. It's ours to decide over.
The problem is that it isn't ours to decide in many countries. Billionaires control everything, or at the very least have a 10 ton thumb on the scale and have a monopoly on violence.
Look at the US, vehement opposition to almost all datacenters over the entire country, the entire voterbase tells their politicians on every level that they all don't want them. What happens? The politicians completely ignore the population and the people that voted for them, use the people's tax money to build the billionaire surveillance complexes that will literally suck all of the water out of the ground and cause blackouts and create maybe 10 jobs.
We see that here is Europe more and more too, especially with anything having to do with banks. We data centers popping up everywhere and half of new automation engineer jobs are for data center pop ups here in Belgium with 0 option to even publicly dissent, much less vote against them.
it's fucking ghoulish that these salesmen treat a college commencement as just another platform to push their product and grow hype
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Shame these kids got an advertisement instead of a commencement speech.
Usually they also like to tell you it's the new industrial revolution. Then you look at the industrial revolution and see 100 years of poverty, living in slums, child labor, ridiculous working hours and protesting the elites.
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I'm rather proud of humanity here.
A narcissist with psychopathic tendencies promotes his next bullshit way of him getting richer, and people just showed him what they think of it
Good
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It would have been more satisfying if they rushed the stage to rip the fucker apart then just rioted. But I guess we’re not quite there yet.
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The annoying thing is that generative AI actually has real, positive applications for humanity.
Unfortunately, dickheads like Schmidt have applied it to the things it's least good at because it's the most likely to enslave the populace by denying them of jobs and make the most money.
It does not. "Generative" AI is anything but and does absolulty nothing but harm.
Schmidt has applied it to collaborate with the USSA imperialist mass-murdering regime.
https://www.projectcensored.org/ai-warlord-eric-schmidt-money-media-maim/
I'm curious what positive applications you see in it? Genuine question, not trying to fight, just looking for other views
Programmer here. They can be a useful tool if used correctly. They are great at writing unit tests, useful for upgrading older code, and really useful as a semi-intelligent autocomplete.
If used incorrectly they will generate a giant mess that works briefly but becomes impossible to expand on, full of duplicated sections that makes maintenance super difficult, and have weird logical flaws.
I prefer using agents running on my own desktop rather than paying somebody for it.
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Glad he’s getting booed. In this clip he’s saying things that are potentially true about AI. The biggest problem though is that assholes like him will be the ones designing AI. They want to own the source of all information to shape the world as they wish it to be.
They already own the media, now their AI will be what they want it to be, say what they want it to say.
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