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

submitted 10 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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[–] acb@mastodon.social 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

@gerikson @cstross the domino meme with the small domino being “ESR takes over the Jargon File” and the largest one being “Musk destroys the parts of geek culture not already owned by Marvel”

[–] Landa@graz.social 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

@acb and esr still hasn’t fixed that http headers, html headers, and actual html content show three different, incompatible character encodings.
@gerikson @cstross

[–] m@blat.at 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@Landa @acb @gerikson @cstross Maybe he thinks his Aunt Tillie should fix it?

[–] Landa@graz.social 1 points 10 months ago

@m Well, seems like she's still busy with her guru meditation class or putting the wrong certificate onto cats.org, so it's still ISO-8859-1 pretending to be UTF-8 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@acb @gerikson @cstross

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