Not sure who wrote this, but I love it.
The creator of ChatGPT is named "Altman," as in "alternative to human" and he leads OpenAl, which is completely closed.
His main opponent is the company Anthropic, meaning "human-centered" is led by "Amodei," as in "loves gods".
Then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a company that said that it will do no evil.
Apr 29, 2026, 12:45 PM@selzero I think I've seen this before with the caption "even hideo kojima would think this is a bit far fetched"
@selzero Cortana is named after a character in a video game series that's the spiritual successor to one primarily concerned with AIs going psychotic, killing every human under their control, and betraying all of humanity to aliens.
And then there's Palantir, named after the magical devices that were used to influence and corrupt the mind and intentions of the supreme deity's highest representative in the mortal realm.
It used to be a joke for a company to be called "Evil Inc."
@selzero Oh, and let's not forget, fucking Cyberdyne. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdyne_Inc.
Some of us French (from metropolitan France at least, cannot vouch for others) find Claude Mythos especially amusing, as, for us, "mytho" is vernacular for "compulsive liar".
Apr 29, 2026, 12:56 PM@selzero Kinda like countries that put “People’s Democratic Republic” and such into the name of the country, when they are no such thing.
@selzero Ya know I always wondered about all of this 😹
Now seeing it all spelled out and together, it makes much more sense and would (again) give dickens a run for his money 😹
Apr 29, 2026, 1:09 PMI'd wager this was written by the Anthropic PR team. Anthropic clearly has an incredible PR team as almost all news about that company focuses on how they are so much less-bad than their competitors to the point that some people actually see Anthropic as good, ethical, or other such positive words.
They're still an AI company; an AI company in sheep's clothes.
@selzero OK, I get how Myths are formed
@selzero “gemini” means “twins”
Apr 29, 2026, 4:02 PMthere's janus, the two faced god. and apparently google is doing something with gemini codenamed janus
gemini is greek and janus is roman but they are not cognates of each other
however gemini in astrology does have to do with a "two faced" personality
i don't believe any of that shit, i'm just explaining that what selzero is saying is not inaccurate
@benroyce @selzero I thought Janus might have been the interpretation, though my only source for connecting “two-faced” as in duplicitous with the two-faced Roman god (one looking into the past and the other looking into the future) is the movie Goldeneye, so I have treated it with skepticism. 😅 Janus is the god of doorways, physically, and thus metaphorically of transitions/beginnings/endings.
“Gemini” is Latin and, If you believe wiktionary, descends from proto-italic, no mention of Greek. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geminus — the words geminus and ianus aren’t really related.
I didn’t know there was a canonical astrological association with gemini ♊️ as being duplicitous, since I don’t follow astrology. Seems kind of rude though. 😂
The only inaccurate thing selzero said is what “gemini” means, so I’m not trying to start an argument about the *point* being made.
Apr 29, 2026, 4:48 PM
@selzero when they merge, name change to "Misanthrophic".
@selzero I'm fascinated by how Google's "Don't Be Evil" motto began at the top of their list of values and has since moved into the last paragraph.
@selzero Multidimensional reality at its clearest. Everything we are experiencing are reflections from all the dimensions we occupy.
@selzero Don’t look too much into it. I bet those companies never did. If they had the power of introspection, we wouldn’t have them in the first place.
@thevhswizard @farah @selzero
> If nothing else, it's proof that the world
> we live in is NOT a simulation created by
> Hideo Kojima, because if he made it the
> names would be waaaaay more on-point.
https://www.sauron.systems/
https://www.palantir.com/
...You were saying?
"Do no evil" is a pretty low expectation to start with.
@selzero kojima you genius
@selzero that's brilliant 💜
@selzero the most cynical is Palantir, they eye of Sauron who sees it all. I mean, the creators should be named George Orwell or smth
@epistomai @selzero The Palantíri are seeing stones that were originally a gift from the elves and installed all over the kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor as communication devices. Sauron got his hands on one of them after taking Minas Ithil/Minas Morgul. He then used it to spy on others, and drive Denethor insane. But the Palantír is not the Eye of Sauron.
@VerenaRupp @selzero I didn't say otherwise. George Orwell's 1984 has 'an eye who watches all the time and everything', and that's what I meant. Two fictional novels who seem like the same intended guideline for the AI creator.
By the way, yesterday I watched Colossus (1970s) and the AI also have an Orwellian/Sauron surveillance at all times approach. Same as The Prisoner series. Use of tech or any magical device to spy and control
As a Gemini ourselves, we do not clAIm them. :P
@selzero also there's copilot which most definitely could not be trusted to land a plane safely in the event of the pilot's sudden incapacitation
illuminati confirmed
Apr 29, 2026, 5:13 PM@selzero These assholes make us cyborgs look bad.
@selzero In German, "Altmann" means "old man".
@selzero Wait! Is there no media centered around an emo, “I’m 13 and this is deep” Sam Alt-man account sharing deep truths with the sheepish masses? Where are the image galleries and parody blog posts? Did we all just get too busy to internet?
