Recent commencement speakers including Google's Eric Schmidt have been booed for praising AI and encouraging students to use it as they embark on their careers.
What’s unique is that we’ve witnessed the masses perception of reality disalign with business propaganda. These speeches used to tell new grads to work hard and become entrepreneurs and that propaganda was (and largely still is) simply accepted as neutral advice, but the ai slopaganda is so obviously bad and the ruling class has become so openly incompetent and people’s material conditions are noticeably getting worse and all of these things have resulted in this particular manifestation of the ruling class’ desires being rejected.
What’s unique is that we’ve witnessed the masses perception of reality disalign with business propaganda. These speeches used to tell new grads to work hard and become entrepreneurs and that propaganda was (and largely still is) simply accepted as neutral advice, but the ai slopaganda is so obviously bad and the ruling class has become so openly incompetent and people’s material conditions are noticeably getting worse and all of these things have resulted in this particular manifestation of the ruling class’ desires being rejected.