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'You can hear me now or pay me later' Music exec tells graduates booing AI
- shomp 5mo agoThe kids are alright
- bluefirebrand 5mo agoThe sheer, naked arrogance of these execs, man They're so used to all of their sycophants around them clapping like seals at everything they say, they can't even begin to understand why other people wouldn't like what they're pushing We can't be rid of them soon enough
- jollyllama 5mo agoHe would have been dumbstruck if there hadn't been two or three similar headlines in the last two weeks. He knew this would happen and he had his canned snarky retort ready.
- ryandrake 5mo agoThe smug grins on all their faces is what gets me. They are absolutely giddy at the opportunity to enrich themselves at everyone else’s expense, and they are so insular and protected from us that they feel no danger outwardly admitting it.
- onetokeoverthe 5mo ago[dead]
- bluefirebrand 5mo ago"You can hear me now or pay me later." Stinks of "let them eat cake" It's an extremely similar sort of arrogance
- irishcoffee 5mo agoIf you want the other perspective (I don't agree with what I'm about to say) just: s/execs/kids
- happytoexplain 5mo agoWe know the other perspective.
- bluefirebrand 5mo agoAnyone who seriously would take the side of a corporate exec sneering at high school students is someone seriously not worth giving even a tiny bit of attention to The sooner that scum like that can be recognized and shunned from society, the better
- atomicnumber3 5mo agoSomehow one of the most fascinating aspects of LLMs is that they were able to basically both reveal corporate capitalism as primarily being about virtualized feudalism, and also casually ruin the entire world, just by their ability to generate decently grammatically correct English. Why is it that all of these bigheaded corpo type people react to "anti-AI" sentiments with this strongman crap? Are they surprised that people, especially young people who are going to head into the world to try to make their way, are NOT supportive of the idea they'll just be eternal slaves, or even unemployed nuisances, to feudal lords? The whole fucking point of this system is for it to support people. "They" need to remember that or they're going to be reminded of it. Capitalism was cool as an evolutionary step but it's pretty fucking clear we're going to need another innovation here sometime soon.
- zzzeek 5mo ago> Capitalism was cool as an evolutionary step but it's pretty fucking clear we're going to need another innovation here sometime soon. Well your other options are Marxism or Star Trek replicators. I'd choose the latter.
- gopher_space 5mo agoWould you vote for my "Social Democracy with Capitalism in a Sandbox" platform?
- zzzeek 5mo agototally, let's go Norway!
- pixel_popping 5mo agoDo you have any other concrete idea than Capitalism? (Not rage-bait, genuinely interested) and how it would work in practice.
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- wnc3141 5mo ago"one word. Plastics" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCHH5D74Fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCHH5D74Fs
- heathrow83829 5mo agoWe've seen this before. google ceo also met with boos about AI at a commencement. It's simple: AI threatens jobs/careers and paychecks. And, we've built an entire society that requires you to have a paycheck just to live. So, of course people are going to boo AI.
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- halJordan 5mo agoThis is the same argument that has been made at every Industrial Revolution. And not even industrial revolutions, just jumps in productivity. When the jobs went offshore, all the Republicans and union democrats made this argument. And now Trump is supposedly an asshole for reshoring, bc a) those jobs that were lost are now shit jobs, and b) the productivity we lose reshoring isn't worth it. You see the jobs leaving the same way republicans saw jobs leaving
- voidnap 5mo agoIt's like watching a linkedin post in human form.
- bicepjai 5mo agoThis is a good analogy
- the_real_cher 5mo agoIt's so insane how we've built society so that you desperately need a job to handle ALL aspects of your life, yet companies are trying to get rid of labor as much as possible. AI is an amazing tool but people hate it because it's a threat to how our ridiculous society is structured.
- ChrisArchitect 5mo agoRelated: The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188310 Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172419 Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096674 Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177107 An AI Hate Wave Is Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173318
- Incipient 5mo agoI think art/music is in a weird dichotomy of sorts, for me at least. It's both the most and least impacted by AI. It's trivial to go "hey suno give me music" but I refuse outright to listen to AI music as knowing it's statistical noise (of sorts) I don't really get value/enjoyment out of it.