AI researcher jokes he skipped the open-source letter to look cool and mysterious
tensorqt · x · 2026-07-28
A joking post says the real reason for not signing “the letter thing” is not belief in open source, but wanting to look “cool and mysterious” and “aurafarm.”
It’s basically a self-aware AI-community joke about status signaling and vibe-chasing, rather than a substantive statement on open source.
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