PSA: this week's frontier model demos include tricks doable since the 1990s
keenanisalive · x · 2026-09-05
Keenan issues a PSA that this week will feel like April Fool's for frontier-model results: some demos of Astra (like generating procedural terrain in Blender in 30 seconds) are genuinely impressive, but procedural terrain has been generatable in under 30 seconds since the 1990s — don't be fooled by the AI-generated label.
Related event: PSA: Some Viral AI Demos Are Just 1990s Procedural Terrain(3 posts)→
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