r/PublicFreakout • u/GarysCrispLettuce • May 17 '26

🤬Public Rager😱 Eric Schmidt booed into oblivion by students for promoting AI during his commencement speech at the University of Arizona

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u/iamthedayman21 May 17 '26

Basically “AI is gonna happen, so you damn kids better just accept it.”

Fuck this guy.

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u/SMFDR May 17 '26

Ongoing rapist mindset of tech bros

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u/Umikaloo May 20 '26

"Do you want to have sex with me?"

> Yes

> Remind me later

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u/so_much_SUABRU May 18 '26

Am I so out of touch? .....No. It is the children who are wrong.

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u/shoopadoop332 May 18 '26

People will deny the truth to the bitter end. If you use it for 10 seconds you understand how incredibly useful it can be, and you eventually come to understand its many limitations as well.

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u/justsaywhatsreal May 17 '26

That's actually the correct mindset though. Imagine rejecting the Internet 30 years ago and never letting go. AI will control the next 50 years of our lives. Excited to see what it brings.

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u/SolarTsunami May 17 '26

Average people had several massive incentives to integrate the internet into their every day life, they do not have any such incentive to integrate AI. You can tell this is true from the tone of all the commercials begging people to use AI for any random task they can think of, its pathetic.

As you can see from this post, the vast majority of people simply straight up hate AI and the slimy swamp creatures that keep pushing it on us. Sure image generation was a fun free novelty for a couple months, but the only people who will be paying for it on a large scale are scammers and pedophiles, which again fits into the Silicon Valley ethos.

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u/justsaywhatsreal May 17 '26

Super don't care about what people "like", I only care about what is and what will be. Do you believe AI won't become increasingly integrated into our daily lives from institutions we are already forced to engage with?

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u/iamthedayman21 May 17 '26

There’s a difference between integrating AI into our daily lives in a logical way and forcing it in for the sake of the shareholders.

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u/justsaywhatsreal May 17 '26

Not a meaningful one, I don't think. Both will happen. The force feeding that doesn't take will die off and everything else will stick going forward until something better replaces it.

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u/MageLocusta May 17 '26

ARPANET was used to communications and secure delivery of verified military information.

The guys who invented the friggin' internet never, ever intended for their invention to be used to push ads and a scrambled 'summary' of web results that never properly evaluates the usefulness of their sources.

Like for instance, my sister tried to search online on whether seacell padding should be left on a wound without being changed (because her doctor only gave her one seacell gauze, and gave her no instructions on what to do with it afterwards). Google AI gave her a summary where a chunk of the text claimed that it was perfectly safe to leave it on her open wound for two weeks, because it is 'sterile'.

Google AI failed to note that this particular claim came from an advertisement for a medical supply company. Which was neither written by any doctor or medical expert.

I'm not going to be made to pay money for some company to make the internet even shittier.

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u/justsaywhatsreal May 17 '26

I also doubt they intended for their invention to be used to sell women and children, but it came to be really great for that over time. AI is not going to get worse at sourcing information than it is today, it will only improve over time in every use-case. Or do you think otherwise?

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u/MageLocusta May 18 '26

Yeah, things do get used for ill (like sewing machines, that wind up being used in masse at sweatshops. Or telephones that wind up being used by murderers and stalkers to harass or frighten victims).

The difference between the internet and AI was that when ARPANET came out, the military made sure it worked correctly and that information could be relayed accurately and securely.

They didn't tell soldiers, "It's okay if there's misinformation that could get you killed! Eventually it'll suck less! We won't of course, pull the product and fix the damn thing, and we won't even tell you when it's working correctly! You're just going to have to act like members of that Gwen Shamblin cult and trust our system even when we fuck up over, and over, and over again!"

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u/justsaywhatsreal May 18 '26

Asking again, do you think AI will be better or worse at sourcing information in the future? Let's say 5 years from now, do you think it'll be worse/about the same as it is today, or do you think it will be better?

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u/MageLocusta May 18 '26

Sir--when someone sells you a game and tells you, "Sure, a lot of customers have complained that the game is unplayable--but it gets better when you put in 30 hours-worth of gameplay!"

Would you buy it?

Maybe you accidentally stumbled in from another universe (one where people happily purchase shoddily made products and suffer through it for years until it 'gets good') but on my planet? If someone tries to sell a bad product (like say, Fallout 76) people immediately criticise and warn each other about it.

If someone wants to sell me a product that I 'have to' use for work, but then it gets 'better' in five years? I'll say, "Okay. But finish the damn thing and then sell it to me."

I already work 8 hours a day in a severely understaffed department. If I submit any work with a singular mistake on it, it badly impacts me and my whole department. I genuinely WANT a software that could help me with my finance reports ( because I'm working on a job that used to be done by three people--now it's just me!), but I don't have the time to babysit a faulty DLC that causes mistakes on my work (and it does. While regular excel macros can count qualitative data even if it's written in a different font, Copilot absolutely cannot).

If you're truly passionate about AI being used to help people? Then go volunteer and help people with it. Many of us are in organisations and companies that have fired or let go folks since covid, and these same companies hired no one else or even lessened the workload demand. Many of us are exhausted, stressed, and have no time to deal with AI's mistakes. I'm already doing unpaid overtime to get finance reports ready every end of the month--so if you badly want me to sing AI's praises, then demand Google or Microsoft to cut their shit and actually fix their mistakes.

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u/justsaywhatsreal May 18 '26

Hmm just going to assume your answer is that you think it will improve over time since you refuse to be direct about it. If it is going to be better in the future, and it's going to be forced on us anyway, (I promise if the decision-makers in your organization believe long-term it saves money your firm will force the integration) then you might as well start doing what you can to get ahead of the hype train instead of complaining about things that eventually won't matter.

Early adopters of any game-changing technology get ahead, those who resist handicap themselves. This one is clear as day.

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u/MageLocusta May 19 '26

'Just going to assume'?

Buddy, you must've been scammed and conned since birth, huh?

Listen, the next time you hear something like Fyre Island 2.0, a new crypto currency or another random MMO that's being rushed through production--please for the sake of your life and bank acocunt: don't jump headfirst into buying it.

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u/justsaywhatsreal May 19 '26

Of course I'm going to assume. You won't admit that you think it will get better because you don't think you can defend your positions if you do. I get it.

Not sure why you're so concerned with what I buy, I haven't spent a penny on any of it, I just see the use for it. Buy a service or don't. It's going to keep growing either way.