The shoggoth meme gets a cleaner visual for the LLM era
dioscuri · x · 2026-07-25
The thread credits another user for refining the “shoggoth” visual analogy used to describe the LLM era, connecting it to Yann LeCun’s famous cake metaphor.
- The core idea is that AI can look human-like on the surface while being built on an alien internal architecture.
- This is less a technical breakthrough than a widely shareable AI culture meme with a clear conceptual punchline.
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