Parody pause letter: "AI inference is getting too fast—we ask for a pause"
MickeySteamboat · x · 2026-09-12
A Databricks employee parodies AI pause-letter rhetoric: "Our AI inference is getting too fast. We are extremely close to the model answering before you finish typing the prompt. We are not asking for a ban. We are asking for a pause." A reply jokes about having built a shift-to-finish autocomplete nine months ago and removing it "due to safety concerns"—it kept wanting to do weird things to fruit flies.
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