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Elon Musk releases Grok-2 AI image generator for edgelords (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (22 children)

Musk appropriating "grok" from Stranger in a Strange Land is on-brand for him, seeing as he fundamentally misunderstands Banks' Culture series and reduces it to "the one with the cool ship names".

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[–] szbalint@x0r.be 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

@gerikson @cstross

Yeah he has no self-awareness at all that in the culture universe he’d be taken out by Zakalwe

[–] resuna@ohai.social 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

@szbalint @gerikson @cstross

But Joiler Veppers was taken out by Lededje Y'breq.

[–] dash@social.coop 3 points 2 months ago

@resuna @szbalint @gerikson @cstross IIRC by-as-in-close-to Lededje Y'breq, but by-as-in-responsible-for the avatar of the Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints.

But 100% with you on Musk = Veppers

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