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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@szbalint @gerikson @cstross

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

@szbalint @gerikson @cstross

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

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