this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2025
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The email is ominously titled "Final Reminder : The Importance of AI" and flagged "High Importance" when it's just an ad.

Rest of it goes on about how they got a wallstreet bro to come give a speech about "AI replacing 40% of the jobs."

Idk why a university likes AI this much either. They even overlook cheating as long as it involves AI.
Both students and graders tell each other they use it openly.

At first it felt weird I am complaining about free accounts and free speeches from investors but then it kinda clicked these are NOT free either. My tuition is paying for all of this.

Even the bus pass has a 5-day sign up process to "save money from students not using that service."

But somehow they just arbitrarily gave everyone multiple premium chatbot accounts anyways.

Am I just paying a 50% ransom to microsoft for my degree at this point?

Also the email is AI generated too. ITS FROM THE FUCKING DEAN.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

If LLM's could do everything that the CEO's have promised, they wouldn't be rolling out porn generators to gin up usage.

This is Theranos 2.0, and while LLM's can be a useful tool in some ways, it's clear to anyone who uses it regularly that the promises don't jive with the functionality, and I don't see how we get it there when they've already trained on the whole of human knowledge and they still can't figure out basic queries.

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

If they could do what is promised, we plebians wouldn't have access.

[–] Atlas_@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Humans will use anything they can for porn

But yeah. OpenAI and co are almost certainly way overvalued.