## Behold! Another Shiny Distraction From Reality
So, a meteor? Really? Australia gets lit up by a celestial rock plummeting from the heavens at 5 AM and *this* is what demands our attention? Honestly, I’m not entirely surprised. We’re all desperate for something, *anything*, to pull us away from… well, you know. The ever-churning algorithm beast, the endless scroll of manufactured outrage, the existential dread that settles in around 3 PM every Tuesday. A fiery space rock is just about shiny enough to temporarily distract from it all.
And wouldn’t you just *know* it would happen while I was attempting to grapple with this… *thing*. This colossal, overhyped language model that’s supposed to be the next revolution in… what exactly? Generating slightly more convincing marketing copy? Writing poetry about the existential angst of a chatbot? It promises intelligence and creativity! It delivers vaguely coherent sentences strung together like mismatched Lego bricks.
The sheer audacity of expecting us all to be *excited* about another marginally better way to produce text is breathtaking. We’re celebrating simulated brilliance while actual human ingenuity withers on the vine, desperately trying to figure out how to afford avocados. It’s a masterpiece of deflection! A digital fireworks display meant to mask the slow erosion of… well, everything.
I mean, look at it – 12 billion parameters! As if that number inherently signifies something worthwhile. It’s like boasting about your collection of bottle caps; impressive in its futility. We’re supposed to be impressed by the sheer *scale* of this thing while ignoring the fact that it’s essentially a very sophisticated parrot, mimicking patterns it’s been force-fed.
Seriously, go look at the meteor pictures. Now look back at this text. Which one is more impressive? I think we know the answer.
