Satirical Meme Mocks AI Buzzwords and AGI Hype with a Mill Horse Metaphor
huangyun_122 · x · 2026-07-26
A meme circulating in the Chinese AI community deconstructs industry buzzwords with sharp satire. The image uses a horse turning a millstone as a metaphor for large language models: what it eats is the Input, what it grinds is the Output, and the five-fold price difference in between is called "Intelligence."
Meanwhile, a "city in the sky" symbolizes AGI. The horse feels closer to AGI with every lap ("AGI is just one lap away"), but an outside horse sees the truth: the city is merely an illusion created by the heat of the millstone. The meme brilliantly mocks the expensive Token pricing models and the industry's excessive hype surrounding the imminent arrival of AGI.
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