AI Twitter's Overton Window Shifted in 30 Days: METR Buzz, GPT-6 Demos and Fly Memes
dejavucoder · x · 2026-09-19
The author recaps a rapid-fire series of AI community moments from the past 30 days: METR's HF incident report, an Anthropic departure joining METR's GDM-related efforts, Jacob Coxon's tweet, the "METR aura flation" meme, GPT-6 Astra 3D demos, and the viral fly neural net demo ("I made the fly bisexual"). The takeaway: the AI community's Overton window—what's normal to discuss—moved at a breakneck pace within a single month.
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