this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.

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[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago

"Gemini, write me a graduation speech how AI will replace their potential job prospects!"

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

His face is much redder by the time he finished the speech.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

The kids are alright

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

make computers expensive.

make travel expensive.

burn the atmosphere up.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy fuck. It’s their big day, and he uses it to pitch his fucking shitty fucking products. Read the room dumbarse

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Ads on graduation speech. What a time to be alive!

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dollar as reserve currency is long gone.

Yeah now it's Blackwell lol

[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

AI aside, this was incredibly disrespectful to the graduates. He basically stole the ceremony to pitch his business. These people have no shame.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] StopTech@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Whenever you're ready

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[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 36 points 1 day ago

Kids are SO Ungrateful! WHY can't they just APPRECIATE the Epstein Class for ELIMINATING their Job Prospects like GOOD SEXY Kids?

-Rich People!

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A billionaire praising AI as the next big thing doesn't belong at a graduation ceremony.

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Matt 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not just any advertisement. An advertisement for something that is likely limiting their job opportunities that they have been studying years for.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 143 points 2 days ago (40 children)

"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.

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 100 points 2 days ago (7 children)

it's fucking ghoulish that these salesmen treat a college commencement as just another platform to push their product and grow hype

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I was hoping someone would throw tomatoes or something at him.

Maybe a brick or two.

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

The kids are alright.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Shame these kids got an advertisement instead of a commencement speech.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Can't escape targeted ads

[–] StopTech@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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?

[–] moustachio@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Since the boos are basically always after he refers to AI… I’d say most of it is a rejection of “AI.”

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

very few people know or care about who schmidt is or was

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Because he's a motherfucker.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Read the room, dickhead.

It's not often the room is quite this easy to read.

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[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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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[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

they need more fodder to throw at the AI slop industry to stave off the burst, thats what they are saying.

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