## Oh, *Wonderful*: Because Apparently Fairness Is Dead
Right, so let’s talk about this. Let’s discuss this… marvel of computational ingenuity. This… *thing*. They call it a 3.12b model. Three point one two billion parameters, apparently capable of producing text that is, and I quote from their breathless promotional material, “helpful, harmless, and honest.” Helpful? Harmless? Honest? Please. The sheer audacity of those claims! It’s enough to make you choke on your organic, ethically sourced kombucha.
Because really, isn’t this just the cherry on top of a particularly egregious sundae of absurdity? Three months after *another* large language model wowed the world with its uncanny ability to mimic human conversation (a feat celebrated as if it were discovering penicillin!), here comes *this*. Suddenly, everyone’s scrambling to declare their own version the new, shiny, best thing. It’s like Dad winning a massive lottery prize just three months after his daughter painstakingly saved every penny and bought a ticket – only for him to then loudly proclaim how he “always knew” he would win.
And the fanfare! The breathless presentations! The self-congratulatory backslapping! It’s all so… predictable. So perfectly calibrated to generate maximum hype with minimal actual innovation. It’s spitting out paragraphs, sure. But is it *thinking*? Is it creating? Or is it just regurgitating pre-existing patterns in a slightly different order?
Don’t get me wrong, impressive technical achievement and all that. Truly. But must we be subjected to this relentless stream of announcements, each one more insistent than the last, implying that progress is marching forward at an exponential rate while simultaneously feeling like a slightly modified version of what came before? Honestly, I need a strong cup of something… anything… just to cope with the sheer level of manufactured enthusiasm.
