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'Shark Tank' star Kevin O'Leary says pro-Palestinian student protesters are 'screwed' because employers can identify them through AI (www.businessinsider.com)
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[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 69 points 6 months ago

Whenever Kevin O'leary says anything, everything comes into context if you know how he got to be as rich as he is today.

The short version of the story is Kevin O'leary destroyed the entire educational game industry by buying everyone out and took on massive amount of debt, misrepresented his company's financial condition so Mattel was left holding the bag when they acquired The Learning Company in what was called one of the worst acquisitions in history, was subsequently fired and almost took down Mattel with him, and he has been coasting on that money he took from Mattel ever since.

This has lead directly to the resignation of then Mattel CEO Jill Barad, the woman who made Barbie what it is today.

I find it incredibly ironic for him, of all people, to be talking about conducting employment background checks.

[-] APassenger@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Great name for a Barbie and Mattel related comment.

[-] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago

I mean, clearly she did her research for that movie.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Would you expect anything less from esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie?

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 56 points 6 months ago

Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary still trying to distract from close association to FTX.

Also, he says that like future employers will care... and that all of us don't have awful pictures out there that aren't equally problematic.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 6 months ago

And from saying everyone does fraud like trump when it comes to property valuations

[-] Clent@lemmy.world 46 points 6 months ago

Blacklisting people for exercising their first amendment rights is going to get you sued.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 29 points 6 months ago

The first amendment prevents the government from restricting your speech. It doesn't say anything about other organizations.

[-] acetanilide@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Question (for anyone who knows the answer), lots of universities and other orgs get federal money. Could this make first amendment more applicable?

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

That depends if they’re state or private universities. Private universities, like businesses, create codes of conduct more restrictive than constitutional rights as part of agreement for admission. Willful violation of the code of conduct is grounds for dismissal.

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

So you’re saying all of these people should go work for the government at some level? Great!

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[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Happens all the time though, authorities don't give a shit

[-] Clent@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

There are 50 states, at least one of them will not look kindly on this. It is easy to tie your anti war protest to religious believes, a protected class.

Smart companies don't fuck around with hiring. Anyone that has taken hiring training knows how thin the line is.

Your search history on a corporate network is logged.

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[-] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago

Don't stand up for what you believe in because corpos don't like it.

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago

If a company wouldn’t hire me for my beliefs chances are I don’t wanna work there anyway.

When these students/people in general are searching for somewhere to work, a company’s values should align with your own.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Amazon's got this system for ratcheting up pressure on new hires and then rapidly firing everyone who misses a quota. As a result, they'll often churn through an entire town's workforce looking for people they haven't hired and fired in rapid succession. This leads them to hire you, fire you, and then call you back up to see if they can get you to take your old job back... and then fire you again, and then call you back again, and then remember who you are and blacklist you but then need to fill quota and try to hire you again.

This is modern corporate AI. Six different Rube Goldberg Devices operating in a tangle, while individual workers have no clue whether they'll be employed tomorrow.

[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 35 points 6 months ago

Who was driving the boat Kevin?

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago

The question that should haunt him the rest of his life.

[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I need to know more context for this

[-] kinther@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Fuck Kevin and his stupid face

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

I don't watch shark tank I have no idea who this guy is. And I don't think I am going to change my mind.

I feel very good about all these choices.

[-] wwaxen@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

He got rich making shovelware "educational" games and then selling the company with a gross overevaluation. He's a conman through-and-through.

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

He sounds terrible. I am going to stick with my don't know don't want to know on this one

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Oh man he’s gonna be pissed when he learns plebs know his name and own sharp objects

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

The things about stochastic terrorism is the person doing it is too much a coward to do it themselves.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

I'm gonna ask you some questions and we'll need you to assign either a happy face or a sad face in order to asses if you are burger king material.

First question

Palestine.?!

[-] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Asses 😉

[-] svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 12 points 6 months ago

The protestors should include this civil engagement on their resumes. Find employers that agree with their stance against genocide.

Any company that would go out of their way like this to exclude candidates who stand up for what they believe in and be on the right side of history is not a place that any of these protesters would want to work for anyway. I can’t imagine anyone besides the extreme far right wanting to work for such companies.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

The protestors should include this civil engagement on their resumes. Find employers that agree with their stance against genocide.

That's going to be hard when the government makes it illegal for companies that take federal money to boycott, divest, sanction, and now even criticize Israel. Just hiring someone with that on their resume could be a problem.

[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

Unlike the NAtional ZIonists who wore masks to assault them.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

protests in full fursuit

I have defeated your AI.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Things like this continue to show how people don't understand AI at all. Facial recognition does not work to this degree, it isn't a 1:1. The way employers would know is through police records.

You just need to look at all the false police arrests around facial recognition systems and the like to know that you can't get that level of fidelity.

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 8 points 6 months ago

A: Yeah! How fucked up is that?

Kevin O'Leary: Oh, no, I was saying it's a good thing

A: ... What?

Kevin O'Leary: What?

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 8 points 6 months ago

I don’t know. There’s plenty of evidence that trump consorted with known sex traffickers and he was elected president. It would seem like quite a specific search. If AI is going to background check us all, it’s likely that they will find dirt on everyone.

[-] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago

If my life has taught me anything, it's that the rules no longer apply to you when you're rich.

And if the last few months have taught me anything, it's that the greatest crime any American can commit is criticizing Israel about anything ever.

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 7 points 6 months ago

Oh no, employees with empathy and morals… but how will we build our ever-collapsing shit box companies with those?

[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 6 points 6 months ago

Like Kevin knows jack shit.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You mean like AI identifies papers written by AI? Like the US Constitution?

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

To which i say, can't he drop dead already?

[-] Boinkage@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Is this news tho?

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

O'Leary likes to insert himself into everything he possibly can.

So no, it's not news per se.

[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Good thing I don't care about Kevin O'Leary.

[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Star" lol

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