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At this point I'm starting to suspect that AI thought leaders like being booed for giving anti-human speeches. Sundar is looking forward to it!

https://www.businessinsider.com/sundar-pichai-google-graduation-speech-stanford-ai-backlash-eric-schmidt

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is scheduled to deliver the commencement speech at Stanford next month. [...] "These graduates are actually both going to be a big part of driving that progress and also dealing with the impact," he added, referring to AI.

[-] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 14 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

They do. Not the booing itself but being an edgy contrarian. Saying "provocative" anti-human hot takes is how you one-up one another inside the cult and prove you're the edgiest, most disruptive, fastest moving breaker of things in the industry.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 16 hours ago

may they enjoy their introduction(s) to tomato milkshake ducks and shiver in fear nightly at the memory of feeling unpopular

[-] lurker@awful.systems 12 points 23 hours ago

It’s jawdropping how everyone in Silicon Valley is living in their own little world where AI is the greatest invention ever and everyone should be grateful for living in the year of the AI Gods

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 23 hours ago
[-] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 7 points 15 hours ago

don’t kinkshame

Back in my day California perverts said "don't scene in public"

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