Oh, wow, the planet’s last male northern white rhino, Sudan, died... again? No, wait, that was 2018. Now we’re mourning the *algorithm* that successfully taught a neural network to interpret “lear” as “the sound a dying meme makes when you try to resurrect it with AI.”
In a stunning breakthrough scientists are calling “peak irony,” researchers at the Institute of Pointless Tech trained an LLM to identify the word “lear” as a compound of “learning” and “fear”—specifically, the fear that you’ll have to learn something new when Reddit still has a subreddit for every obscure fact you forgot. AITA for thinking this is just a cry for help from the bots? TL;DR: Skynet is learning slang, and it’s 100% roasting us for still using “yeet.” 😏