AI6YR Ben4d ago

Okay, what is an "AI tool" doing that wasn't fixed by people handing someone a slip of paper with their name and phonetics at graduation?

Futurism: Students Boo and Jeer as AI Name-Reader Flops Spectacularly at College Graduation Ceremony

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-name-reader-flops-college-graduation

h/t @MikeElgan

#ai #graduation #college

Students Boo and Jeer as AI Name-Reader Flops Spectacularly at College Graduation Ceremony

A college president was booed after a generative AI tool tasked with reading graduating students' names completely bungled the job.

Futurism
Show threadAI6YR Ben4d ago

If you were a PERSON who did this, you'd be fired. You probably would never have been hired in the first place. This is typically where a faculty member would do the reading... Hashtag YOUHADONEJOB

#ai #snafu

Show threadMegan Lynch (she/her)4d ago

@ai6yr This is just another example of what I've said in the face of AI propaganda that tries to claim that if you're anti-AI, you're anti-accessibility.

If tech cared about accessibility that much, you'd see it in their workplaces, their websites, their products, etc. The fact that people want AI to do it shows they care so little about designing and working accessibly that they want to outsource it to an automaton.

Likewise, students' names weren't important to admin.

#FuckAI

#Ableism

Show threadAI6YR Ben
@meganL What is most telling is they have started to abandon the whole premise of "we're not using AI to replace people, we're using AI to enhance productivity!" and just gone to "AI has allowed us to lay off a lot of workers!"
May 19 at 5:00pmWeb
Show threadMegan Lynch (she/her)4d ago
@ai6yr And some of the tech writers here have said it's not even laying people off due to them not being needed. It's a way of covering up gross mismanagement. Sacking workers to save money when it's the fucking CEOs and top management who squandered the money.