That's a telling understatement in that headline! They really want to downplay the rejection of major corporation CEOs, at least he wasn't as rancid (but he does support rancid corpo activities like what the students were protesting). At least he had the decency to not be Eric Schmidt and tell them that they essentially wasted their time working hard to get their degrees because LLMs were going to take their jobs away. Fucking losers, for different reasons.
The future will be stupid will if we let these bastards get their way...Fight back through diplomacy and other methods if need be. That is the way. The French understand the correct method for making sure things don't go to utter shit in their country.
Yeah, I know what the cause is...It's just marshaling the fight against Capitalism is the issue. If we want it done and dusted it will be an ordeal because the billionaires are not going to let go of their rotted and corruption filled system without a fight. The people do have power, we just have to realize and wield it against them. What comes after will also be hard because we have to replace it with a system that has a level playing field built into it, one that doesn't disadvantage a person for being poor, etc.
What I don't understand is: Who books these speakers? The sentiment of young people is against AI. Why book an AI salesman? Are the responsibles not aware about their students?
I guess the conclusion that “universities that exploit their students are in the same power structure as corporations that exploit their customers and employees” is unacceptable to you?
What's sad is that tuition goes up a few significant percentage points over inflation every year and has for decades, even as teaching is off-loaded to slave labor adjuncts.
College is the initiation of citizenry as cash cows for the extractive capitalist system. Not surprising that where you went to college functions as social branding.
I am still hopeful that we are just a couple of malicious lines of code away from rendering this whole AI abomination inoperable, or at least so heavily crippled with various security measures that it is practically unusable. One can dream, I guess …..
They still haven't found any viable solution to prompt injection. Every time they put an AI agent in charge of anything important, that's a huge security risk.
The AIs are very stupid, and it's trivially easy to trick them into violating security protocols.
I don't know the details of this specific protest but I will say, media is notorious for underplaying participation in these things. We've hosted protests of 500+ people that got described in the news as dozens, or 5000+ that gets described as hundreds.
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reddig33@lemmy.world · 105 pts · 54d
200 = “dozens”
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sundar-pichai-stanford-commencement-22304888.php
LostWanderer@fedia.io · 62 pts · 54d
That's a telling understatement in that headline! They really want to downplay the rejection of major corporation CEOs, at least he wasn't as rancid (but he does support rancid corpo activities like what the students were protesting). At least he had the decency to not be Eric Schmidt and tell them that they essentially wasted their time working hard to get their degrees because LLMs were going to take their jobs away. Fucking losers, for different reasons.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 54d
The future is stupid.
LostWanderer@fedia.io · 10 pts · 54d
The future will be stupid will if we let these bastards get their way...Fight back through diplomacy and other methods if need be. That is the way. The French understand the correct method for making sure things don't go to utter shit in their country.
tomiant@piefed.social · 5 pts · 54d
Capitalism needs to go. That's the cause of this shit.
It's feudalism 2.0 with extra microplastics.
LostWanderer@fedia.io · 2 pts · 53d
Yeah, I know what the cause is...It's just marshaling the fight against Capitalism is the issue. If we want it done and dusted it will be an ordeal because the billionaires are not going to let go of their rotted and corruption filled system without a fight. The people do have power, we just have to realize and wield it against them. What comes after will also be hard because we have to replace it with a system that has a level playing field built into it, one that doesn't disadvantage a person for being poor, etc.
honesthenery@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 54d
All this nazi futurism only to witiness the age of the turdsandwich. It is truly a limp dick
honesthenery@thelemmy.club · 0 pts · 54d
You took the words right out of my mouth 🤣
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 54d
16 and a half dozens.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 54d
I feel like it for sure stops being dozens when it surpasses 144
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 54d
After that, it’s just gross
ecvanalog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 54d
Golf clap.
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 13 pts · 54d
If they don’t want to commit to h “hundreds” BBC could have gone with “scores” or even the venerable NoCal “hella”
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 54d
"At least twelve"
paw@feddit.org · 46 pts · 54d
What I don't understand is: Who books these speakers? The sentiment of young people is against AI. Why book an AI salesman? Are the responsibles not aware about their students?
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 54d
I guess the conclusion that “universities that exploit their students are in the same power structure as corporations that exploit their customers and employees” is unacceptable to you?
The system is fractally corrupt.
paw@feddit.org · 9 pts · 54d
So you mean, ttey are as disconnected from the reality of young people as their commancement speech speekers? I guess you're right, and that's sad.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 54d
What's sad is that tuition goes up a few significant percentage points over inflation every year and has for decades, even as teaching is off-loaded to slave labor adjuncts.
College is the initiation of citizenry as cash cows for the extractive capitalist system. Not surprising that where you went to college functions as social branding.
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 54d
Totally, there be some DUMB fucking Ivy Leaguers running society. It's not an education, it's a frathouse.
Genuinely, one thing that got clear the older I get is your education doesn't mean shit, who you know does.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 53d
Yeah, and what I've realized is that if you're not connectwd, sucking up to superiors is worth being 10x better at your job.
cloudless@kbin.earth · 17 pts · 54d
I am still hopeful that we are just a couple of malicious lines of code away from rendering this whole AI abomination inoperable, or at least so heavily crippled with various security measures that it is practically unusable. One can dream, I guess …..
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 16 pts · 54d
They still haven't found any viable solution to prompt injection. Every time they put an AI agent in charge of anything important, that's a huge security risk.
The AIs are very stupid, and it's trivially easy to trick them into violating security protocols.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 10 pts · 54d
EU is doing that by putting "you are liable for your AI" in law code. Big Tech was not amused.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 54d
I am shocked we are fighting back AT ALL. And I don't expect it to last.
dickalan@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 54d
are you sure that's not just in Germany because of debacle with AI summaries there
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 9 pts · 54d
Seems be quite a bit more dozen’t it?
honesthenery@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 54d
Fuck everybody that works at or for google.
tomiant@piefed.social · 5 pts · 54d
Bloody fuck you bloody!
honesthenery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 54d
dope
foxymochakitten@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 50d
The kids are alright
kraxla@piefed.social · -1 pts · 49d
Some Stanforders dislike Technology???? Weird
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · -3 pts · 54d
Entire dozens? Is this the civil war I've been hearing about? Do I hoard toilet paper now?
danciestlobster@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 54d
I don't know the details of this specific protest but I will say, media is notorious for underplaying participation in these things. We've hosted protests of 500+ people that got described in the news as dozens, or 5000+ that gets described as hundreds.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 54d
The time to hoard is before you need it bro.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 53d
...um.... yes?