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

submitted 3 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (35 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.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (33 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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[–] pdcawley@mendeddrum.org 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@gerikson GSV The One With The Cool Ship Name is a vessel in The Culture though.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

"Why did you choose that name, Mind?"

"Well you see I happened to catch this "TV" show on this backwater planet and it really stuck with me!"

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