## Oh Joy, Another AI Savior
Right, let’s talk about this… *thing*. This “3-12B” marvel that everyone’s apparently losing their minds over. Because, naturally, we needed *another* large language model. As if the internet wasn’t already drowning in a sea of slightly-coherent text generated by algorithms trained on who-knows-what scraps of data.
Honestly, the breathless pronouncements about its capabilities are exhausting. “Open source!” they cheer. As if open source automatically equates to revolutionary or even *useful*. It usually means someone’s cobbled together something that works…mostly, and then unleashed it upon an unsuspecting public to deal with the inevitable quirks and biases.
And don’t even get me started on the comparisons! Oh, it can almost *sort of* mimic human conversation? Groundbreaking! We’ve waited patiently for a program capable of regurgitating phrases we already say! It generates creative text formats? Fantastic! So now I can have AI write my grocery list in iambic pentameter. My life is truly complete.
The sheer audacity of the marketing hype surrounding this, though… it’s almost impressive. A Virginia man wins a lottery after making a joke about it – that’s charmingly random and human. This? It’s meticulously engineered to convince us we’re witnessing progress. We are not. We’re watching an increasingly sophisticated parlor trick.
Look, I’m sure there’s some legitimate technical achievement happening here. Someone undoubtedly put in a lot of work. But please, for the love of all that is sacred, can we dial back the celebratory fanfare? Let’s just quietly use it to generate slightly less-terrible marketing copy and leave the revolution for something genuinely transformative.
