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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
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this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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Her reaction was shock that they weren't totally on board with being excited about their primary competition in the job market.
Who booked this clueless tool?
I don't even consider LLMs that. I just consider them a massive waster of power and water that inherently degrade everything they touch and have terrible impacts on cognitive and behavioral health.
I'm not worried that AI is gonna take my job, not in a thousand years, what I'm worried about is that AI is going to BURN THIS PLANET on top of being a constant daily annoyance.
For me they are a glorified search engine and data compiler.
That wastes tens/hundreds of times more resources than actual search engines, which actually searches content instead of making it up.
The sorts of folks that get invited and accept these sorts of engagements are frequently self absorbed and out of touch. The hubris needed to think some randos want to hear you speak... Only hope is if the person has some particular reason they would make sense (e.g. if they are an alumni, then at least they might feel like they have a connection).
The same general phenomenon as when they thought a centerpiece of the Xbox One release should be.... DVRing the Price is Right..... The same as when blizzard said "Do you guys not have phones?"
If you are lucky, a speaker will just say nothing vaguely specifically.
"Yayyy! Poverty and even more enrichment of the aristocracy!"