Not directly related, but all of these "promotions", ads, "try new and improved!", "now introducing [drum roll] Gaia UltraMax CodePro with ChadBoost!", etc. feels like the frontier AI industry has devolved into total degeneracy.

Before ChatGPT there was some amount of dignity to AI research labs, but no more. It's crazy to see how far things have fallen in just a few years.

These manipulative flip-flop monetization tactics are worse than gatcha games and Roblox, and everyone's eating it up like it's normal and they didn't notice the frog got boiled.