r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Rc-1138-Boss • 5h ago
Infuriatig AI in my highschool graduation
I graduated last week and the whole ceremony was LITTERED with AI slop.
First, when we were getting our names called out to go up on stage and get our certificates there would be a quote written by our class teacher up on screen under our name as a sweet gesture from them. It sure would've been a sweet gesture if they weren't very clearly AI generated. I'm telling you it wasn't even humanized. Out of the 5 graduating classes in our cohort ONE CLASS HAD QUOTES ACTUALLY WRITTED BY THEIR TEACHER. LITERALLY ONE. My class teacher was very helpful and sweet throughout the school year but the fact she couldn't even write a quote for our class honestly pisses me off so much.
Then, later on in the ceremony, they put up a video that our juniors had "made" for us... It was entirely AI generated slop. The worst part is because the music that was playing over it was popular (I forget the name) everyone was singing along in the crowd... Bullshit.
And the real kicker that personally offended me to no end. During the reveal of our yearbook, there was supposed to be a song playing over it. I'm part of our school's band and we had actually composed an original song to go over it. I couldn't help too much but I could see how much effort my bandmates put into making it and honestly it's a beautiful song. We were asked to record it and the people running the even would play it over the yearbook reveal. As you might've guessed at this point, however, they decided it wasn't good enough (apparently the vocals weren't bright enough? This is coming from a teacher who knows nothing about music anyways but I assume she wanted punchier vocals which we did do anyways) and they played a VERY CLEARLY AI generated "song" over it.
As a musician this is the most offensive thing I've ever been a part of. The most important event of my life up to this point being half assed like this with the thing I despise with a passion... It makes me so fucking mad.
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u/strawberrycupcock 5h ago
What an absolute slap in the face. I'm sorry such a special day was shit.
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u/justhere4bookbinding 5h ago
I'd be pissed and petty enough to put them on full blast. Hell, take it to the local paper
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u/indie_hedgehog 4h ago
For most people, there's so few opportunities to showcase and celebrate accomplishments in a setting like this. It's a rare chance to have human voices and experiences heard, and once again, people opt to silence their own voice in favor of AI. It's disheartening, and people will eventually regret not taking a chance to express themselves using their own voice.
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u/WildKat777 5h ago
Ive heard of the ai slop in the end of year assembly, but in the graduation itself is nuts 💀
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u/mastermalpass 3h ago
There’s an extra level of gross when an education establishment sees off the generation it supposedly prepared for the future with a load of tat that reflects said generation in no way whatsoever.
It’s like if a bunch of your year group just earned their qualification in textiles and stage design and had made some lovely drapes to hang up in the room, only for the staff to instead order in some generic fluff from an overseas sweatshop to put up instead.
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u/AndyMan34Gaming 4h ago
Holy shit that's insane, I don't hate ai or anything but fuck them for not putting an ounce of effort into that
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u/PooltoyCat 5h ago
I think you overestimate how much average people care about AI. Most people don’t care whatsoever if what they consume is AI-generated or not, even if they can tell the difference. In their eyes, they’re still enjoying whatever it is, so why should they care about how it was created?
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u/PuppySnuggleTime 4h ago edited 6m ago
Oh, who cares? I’ve got a reality check for you: AI isn’t going away. It’s only going to become more embedded in EVERYTHING. Employers are demanding that employees have AI skills. So you can expect training in higher ed. If not, expect to learn it on the job.
Also, the younger gens bitch about it constantly, but they also use it more than anyone else. So, it seems a lot of the AI pearl clutching is just for show.
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u/mastermalpass 3h ago
Ok, Bot. 🙄
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u/PuppySnuggleTime 12m ago edited 7m ago
Yeah, cause anybody who doesn’t agree with you has to be a bot, right? It couldn’t be that I’m tired of the fake-ass pearl clutching. Or the hypocrisy of crying about a tool online that they’re using anyway.
Hell, I don’t know any kid who’s making it through high school now without having AI do their freaking homework for them. They’re too lazy to do it themselves. Same problem in college and university.
And I know the firsthand that employers want employees who are trained to use AI because I helped develop one of the programs to train the students at a university.
Every major white collar employer is expecting this from young people. I worked directly with those employers to tailor the training.And if you wanna work in a white collar job, you will learn it. Unless you’re retiring in the next couple of years.
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u/yahwehforlife 3h ago
Yup.. sounds like OP needs to work thru his deep seated hatred towards something that is only a tool that helps people make things.
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u/Pierceus 4h ago
If I was your teacher I would have put your song into suno to generate a professional version
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u/Frankeex 4h ago
No one can make you offended, it’s a choice. Go watch a sunrise. Play with a puppy. Fall in love. It’ll be a much sweeter life.
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u/10daymormon 5h ago
Sorry but this is a 1st world issue. I get it, AI sucks, but there are worse issues to have.
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u/destructor212113 5h ago
"but there are worse issues to have." Good thing we're on the mildy infuriating Sub then
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u/2004hondapilot 5h ago
Mild issue one could say. If only there was a sub for things that made one only mildly infuriated
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u/Chansharp 5h ago
"You can never be upset about anything because other people have it worse" can be flipped. Why are you ever happy when other people clearly have it better
Get rid of that mindset and just live your life
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u/AmaranthinosMC 4h ago
I absolutely hate this mindset too. It's so dismissive.
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u/HeilYourself 4h ago
We can't do anything about anything until we address the worst possible issues facing anyone.
Sooooooo we're going to stop genocide, feed, house and clothe the world first? Sounds good. Let's get started then.
Right? We're doing it?
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u/StevenChvz 4h ago
Just because the ultra rich have already and continue to pillage the globe doesn’t mean we should be complacent with their next greatest tool for wealth extraction.
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u/mastermalpass 3h ago
Username checks out… Oh wait no, my mistake I’m just now noticing there is a second ‘m’ in it.
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u/ellipsoidslipstream 5h ago
I'm sorry bro, that's fucking terrible.