Viewing OpenAI as a company is like EVA pilots going to high school
jachiam0 · x · 2026-08-29
The author posits that in the future, we will acknowledge the absurdity of OpenAI and Anthropic operating as "companies" with "products" while grappling with the destiny of humanity. It is compared to the incongruity in Evangelion where pilots, despite their role, are inexplicably high school students.
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