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> opting instead for gleeful mockery and scorn

This is well earned by the likes of OpenAI that is trying to convince everyone they need trillions of dollars to build fabs to build super genius AIs. These super genius AIs will replace everyone (except billionaires) and act as magic money printers (for billionaires).

Meanwhile their super genius precursor AIs make up shit and can't count letters in words while being laughably sycophantic.

There's no need to defend poor innocent megacorps trying to usher in a techno-feudal dystopia.



I think there’s plenty to mock about the hype around AI

That doesn’t mean any article mocking it or trashing it is well written or insightful.


>can't count letters in words

This really hasn't been a thing since reasoning models showed up. Any recent example of such seems to come from non-reasoning variants.

>laughably sycophantic

Mainstream models are moving away from this, afaik. Part of the recent drama is that GPT-5 wasn't sycophantic enough for some users.



This is exactly what I'm talking about. The immediate issue with GPT-5's launch was that some people were getting rerouted to 4o, and there was no control over which version of GPT-5 you're getting. Whatever he's talking to there looks nothing like a reasoning model.




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