Adam Greenfield on Nostr: Mark Zuckerberg has evidently named his own AI assistant “Agrippa,” implying of ...
Mark Zuckerberg has evidently named his own AI assistant “Agrippa,” implying of course that he himself is Augustus – founder and first imperator of the Roman Empire.
I don’t know what’s more profoundly cringe, that rather revealing fact or Meta’s infantilizing depiction of its agents as cuddly, marshmallow-proportioned cartoon characters. In fact this whole worldline needs to collapse, the sooner the better.
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