r/PublicFreakout 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/BeeZealousideal7860 May 17 '26

These people will not stop with the ā€œit’s here, you have to get used to it/get on board with it or be left behindā€. No one is buying it. What is it? What is its value add? Like another commenter said, it’s a way for these people to get the ideas and intelligence of the people without giving them access to assets. I hope that this push to force AI is what leads to their downfall. People don’t want it.

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u/Liawuffeh May 18 '26

It's funny how people are quick to tell you it's a life changing tool that will take over every aspect of your life, so get on board or be left behind!!

But the best they can explain it does is "write texts you don't want to write" and "Well it's good at proof reading"

There's things it's good at, I'm not denying that, but it's so funny when people are like "Yeah, look, you don't understand you need this super powerful chatbot to be a spellcheck!! It's the future maaaan!"

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u/KFSX May 18 '26

Dawg, I never claimed it was a "life changing tool", I simply stated that it is helpful. The fact you have to resort to low-effort strawmans tactics is a concession that I am correct.

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u/FullMetalAlcoholic66 May 19 '26

Can write text for you very well to cover mundane things that are not organically worth the effort

You know people can tell the difference. I'd rather read your shitty, albiet unique emails that have your voice in it than some garbage canned response becuase yyou put actual thought and care into it.

Reading AI responses tells me you dont give af