very_well_lost

Having used these extensively, I can say with confidence that they feel exactly as dumb as they are.

$966 million

Holy fuck, an actual disincentive?

Oh, okay. What did you mean?

He only stole the recipe, he took out a trillion dollars in debt to buy the ingredients

Funny how xAi isn't rushing in to flaunt their 1337 hacker skillz.

I guess they're already satisfied with the amount of illegal activity Grok is producing...

marketing and psyop

These have always been the same thing

Evo generated 700,000 potential versions

For context, the Phi X174 virus they started with only has ~5000 base pairs in its entire genome.

Makes me wonder if the AI actually did any intentional generic engineering at all here, or just spit out as many random variations as it could and then the researchers cherry-picked out the ones that looked like they could be viable.

Yeah, because the ownership class fought tooth-and-nail to corrupt the public's understanding of the name, just like they're doing now with 'AI'. You can't be mad at the bastardization of one term without being mad at the other when the same forces lead to both.

Language is constantly evolving and the meaning of certain terms shifts between eras. Right now everyone understands "AI" to mean the LLM slop factories being forced on the world by a trillion dollars in investment cash. If you want to be upset about that, be upset at Silicon Valley for spending so much of that VC money on marketing to corrupt the public's understanding.

Also, "Luddite" isn't the insult you think it is. The luddites were a pro-labor movement, not an anti-technology movement, and many of the labor protections we have today (despite being under attack by big tech) are owed to their successes.

I'm sorry, 3.2 million? That's less than 1/10th of a percent of their reported operating revenue...

Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao...

Worst hoedown ever