'Cancer researcher upset OpenAI solved it' copypasta fools commenters
flowersslop · x · 2026-10-07
A viral post written as a cancer researcher lamenting that OpenAI 'vaporized their life's work' by curing cancer via next-token prediction — clearly satire. The poster laments 'dead internet' because most commenters failed to detect the sarcasm and responded with earnest condolences, making it a live specimen of AI-era reading comprehension failure.
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