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

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (24 children)

Guess it’s appropriate that Musk should go from some sort of entrepreneurial tech guru who was going to save the planet to some right wing billionaire shitheel, steals “grok” from Heinlein, who went for sic-fi author darling to libertarian shitheel.

[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@gerikson @cstross

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

@szbalint @gerikson @cstross

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

@szbalint @gerikson @cstross

Now I think of it, he's also trolling for Gray Area.

[–] [email protected] 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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