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Who's writing this?? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 67 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Didn't google drop the no evil thing when they rebranded to Alphabet?

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    • [–] 56 points 7 months ago

    OpenAI, which is completely closed.

    I don’t know why I laughed at this one in particular, the way it was worded was just funny to me.

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    [–] 55 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Gemini is the twins, Janus is the Roman two-faced god.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Huh, TIL. I thought every Roman god had a Greek counterpart.

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    • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    And Musk is the smelly guy. His AI is named Grok, as a smelly Troll.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Is Grok a reference to a troll?

    I've only know of this.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    it's funny because Stranger In a Strange Land was counterculture at the time it was published (still is tbh) that had strong messaging promoting polygamy and a unifying religion. two things MAGA clearly wants.

    Not only that but the author, Heinlein, also wrote Starship Troopers. you know...the one that glorifies fascist policies and borders on Nazi propaganda. also something MAGA clearly wants.

    Knowing what I know about both Musk and Grok, I'd say the name is spot on if his goal was to assimilate the ideals of fascist polygamist christians. those three words pretty much sum up a perfect observation of MAGA members.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I've vaguely heard that Heinlein just took a whole bunch of different premises and ran with them in different novels. Although what I've gotten around to reading of his stuff so far, sounds very 1950s in style.

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    • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    "Deepseek" does sounds like what Psycho Mantis will do

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    [–] 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This reads like a late-night conspiracy theory mixed with a Kojima pitch 😂 oddly entertaining though.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    And thats without mentioning Palantir, named after the seeing-stones that Saruman use in lord of the rings, and... Gotham? A company that does about the same as the program Lucius Fox had Batman shut down in The Dark Knight.

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    • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    This whole AI side-plot is getting out of hand.

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    [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    And then there's Grok, the sound that Pigs make.

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    [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Lol. If you didn't know, Claude just got open sourced https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/pull/41611

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    • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Who's writing this??

    Someone that doesn't know German.

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    • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Fortunately Skynet has no negative connotations whatsoever. Sky: where peaceful gods live that brighten your day every morning and symbol of pure joy and love. Net: global togetherness brought by instant communications of love and unity.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    A net in the sky makes me think of us as prey being caught, like if Skynet was a spider or fisherman. Granted, I really had to look for that meaning.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Granted, I really had to look for that meaning.

    I just realized this wasn't an evil name across cultures as I have always thought.

    Its Chinese translation 天网 (literally sky + net) is a word used for at least for 2,000 years and is still very actively used among the daily vocabulary. It's a metaphor for law enforcement (especially the destined punishment for going against the "good natural order" i.e. the sky).

    Traditionally, it's neutral or commendatory, but nowadays due to the association with surveillance networks (both metaphorically and literally), it's more derogatory.

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    • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    I will say this about Kojima's naming... I never forget their names.

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    [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Where's the bisexual badass who comes in to save the day?

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    [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Genius Kojimbo

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    [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    They villains are to corny for high school writing.

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