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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Didn't google drop the no evil thing when they rebranded to Alphabet?

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

No, it was several years before that.

The La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo strike again!

[–] SystemDisc@piefed.world 6 points 1 week ago

“Don't be evil“ remains as the final phrase in the Code of Conduct. It was removed from the preface only.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Gemini is the twins, Janus is the Roman two-faced god.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Huh, TIL. I thought every Roman god had a Greek counterpart.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bit more complicated than that.

It’s not one-to-one, and the Romans didn’t just adopt Greek gods.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks for sharing! Will watch later tonight.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's one unique hairdo

Yeah, it would have been more mythologically accurate to say that Gemini is produced by a company that's constantly trying to drag you down into hell.

[–] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Gape Inghol

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 53 points 1 week ago

OpenAI, which is completely closed.

I don’t know why I laughed at this one in particular, the way it was worded was just funny to me.

[–] Miiirx@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Musk is the smelly guy. His AI is named Grok, as a smelly Troll.

[–] wunami@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is Grok a reference to a troll?

I've only know of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's funny because Stranger In a Strange Land was counterculture at the time it was published (still is tbh) that had strong messaging promoting polygamy and a unifying religion. two things MAGA clearly wants.

Not only that but the author, Heinlein, also wrote Starship Troopers. you know...the one that glorifies fascist policies and borders on Nazi propaganda. also something MAGA clearly wants.

Knowing what I know about both Musk and Grok, I'd say the name is spot on if his goal was to assimilate the ideals of fascist polygamist christians. those three words pretty much sum up a perfect observation of MAGA members.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I've vaguely heard that Heinlein just took a whole bunch of different premises and ran with them in different novels. Although what I've gotten around to reading of his stuff so far, sounds very 1950s in style.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

I hate that he ruined this word

[–] RobotFK@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Not even the drink grog?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 17 points 1 week ago

This whole AI side-plot is getting out of hand.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

And then there's Grok, the sound that Pigs make.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

"Deepseek" does sounds like what Psycho Mantis will do

[–] sanbdra@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This reads like a late-night conspiracy theory mixed with a Kojima pitch 😂 oddly entertaining though.

[–] BogeyTheSwear@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And thats without mentioning Palantir, named after the seeing-stones that Saruman use in lord of the rings, and... Gotham? A company that does about the same as the program Lucius Fox had Batman shut down in The Dark Knight.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fortunately Skynet has no negative connotations whatsoever. Sky: where peaceful gods live that brighten your day every morning and symbol of pure joy and love. Net: global togetherness brought by instant communications of love and unity.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

A net in the sky makes me think of us as prey being caught, like if Skynet was a spider or fisherman. Granted, I really had to look for that meaning.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Granted, I really had to look for that meaning.

I just realized this wasn't an evil name across cultures as I have always thought.

Its Chinese translation 天网 (literally sky + net) is a word used for at least for 2,000 years and is still very actively used among the daily vocabulary. It's a metaphor for law enforcement (especially the destined punishment for going against the "good natural order" i.e. the sky).

Traditionally, it's neutral or commendatory, but nowadays due to the association with surveillance networks (both metaphorically and literally), it's more derogatory.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That's a good interpretation from the Chinese point of view. Ancient China is obsess with "heaven". Their philosophy and mythology is chock full of reference to heaven, like the "mandate of heaven".

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Be more patriotic. It's selfish to be afraid of all the winning that skynet brings America.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Behold, the sky net (is this shit co-written by Oda?):

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who's writing this??

Someone that doesn't know German.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

I don't think Kojima knows anything other than Japanese and maybe some English, so that tracks.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

They villains are to corny for high school writing.

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

If Claude Code was (as Anthropic claims) 100% written by Claude, then it's not copyrightable. It's not open sourced, it's public domain.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I will say this about Kojima's naming... I never forget their names.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nick Cage 've done it again!

[–] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I thought Britney Spears did it again? Oops.

[–] Napster153@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Where's the bisexual badass who comes in to save the day?

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

Genius Kojimbo