#Graduation #AI #fail seems to be a recurring theme lately

[rantingcanuck@mstdn.ca]

@benroyce

I genuinely don't understand why they would spend money on AI to read names at graduation... getting a faculty member to volunteer to do it, a faculty member who is already being paid a salary and thus costs nothing extra, is better in every possible scenario.

Maybe next year they'll hire a trained dog to bark out the names? It would go over better

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@RantingCanuck

we're still in the dreamy honeymoon phase of starry eyed "AI for everything!"

even things, as you note, that do not remotely deserve an AI treatment. and is even rather insulting and cold

i suspect that will change

it damn well better change

[zii_0@corneill.es]

@benroyce that's so pathetic

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@zii_0

it really is. i would even say indecent and cold

[lemgandi@mastodon.social]

@benroyce Wow. I did not think any institution of higher learning was dumb enough to screw up a graduation ceremony with AI. Apparently I was mistaken.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

#CNN on instagram has video of an example of the #graduation #AI #fail at #Glendale CC in #Arizona

no, that is not Derek Martinez

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and isn't it lovely to do all that hard work in college and then in the moment of your success and triumph you're churned through with a robot's voice instead of a fucking human being?

[chemicaleyeguy@mstdn.science]

@benroyce #AI is #clankers all the way down, and that’s why #wankers love it *so much!*

#Resist #AIslop.

[mcrocker@thecanadian.social]

@benroyce

Isn't that cheating?

[nandor@universeodon.com]

@PeterLG @benroyce I'm an AI statistician and I agree with you! Use tech for things that humans are really bad at and tech is much better at, not things that humans are inherently better at but just more expensive for.

(And in this case, how much more expensive would it have been to have a human saying the names?)

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@McRocker

[macacator@mastodon.social]

@benroyce at that point, just open the floor and let the students find their own pieces of expensive toilet paper

[pixelpusher220@dmv.community]

@PeterLG @benroyce saw a comment that's probably spot on.

"which faculty got a kickback or discount for pushing the AI software"

there's just no way this is done for funsies...especially at a community college.

[pixelpusher220@dmv.community]

@benroyce gonna be an outlier year in alumni giving down the line.

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@benroyce @RantingCanuck

trained doggo would be more popular with the students and provide a cute video (you could dress it up in cap and gown )

[claudiom@bsd.network]

@PeterLG Not to mention all of the money that was wasted to have that fail in epic fashion. @benroyce

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@macacator

[brad@1040ste.net]

@pixelpusher220 @PeterLG @benroyce Maybe - although I could absolutely see a Dean Pelton type thinking it was a great idea with or without the brown envelopes changing hands.

[bltpizza@mastodon.social]

@benroyce I would have left after yelling, "fuck this AI bullshit".

[dukeduke@mastodon.social]

@lemgandi @benroyce Florizona.

[ashmire@pagan.plus]

@PeterLG @benroyce I noticed today that my local grocery store has started doing announcements this way. Not even pre-recorded advertising announcements they'd have to repeat regularly, but impromptu things, too. It makes no sense to me even there, but for a serious and meaningful occasion like a graduation it's terrible. What next, AI eulogies for your funeral?