A wave of nausea hit when I first saw the warm, fuzzy, cutesy, kawaii, Teletubby-like avatar that Meta gave its Muse agent.

And now OpenAI has done the same thing with their fuzzy, friendly, colorful dots.

I am physically sick.

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john_strinlai 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

im crying and throwing up everywhere. everything i use must be brutalist.

even seeing the linux penguin makes me want to punch my monitor and commit sudoku

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derefr 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think you missed the point. Things should look like what they are.

The Linux kernel is ultimately a friendly open-source project. There's no harm in it being marketed using a cartoon penguin.

These AI services, meanwhile, are the dangled lights on the heads of data-hungry environment-threatening job-killing leviathantine anglerfish.

Making the dangled light present as non-threatening is not a good thing for society, no matter how much you may personally like pretty lights.

	▲	aquariusDue 32 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The one time a similar mascot to FreeBSD's would've made sense.
	▲	panarky an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Imagine 2001: A Space Odyssey with Meta's "Jolly" avatar as HAL instead of a blinking red camera lens. So much more terrifying for a cute, round, fuzzy, friendly, rosy-cheeked plushie trying to exterminate the crew.

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laserlight 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> commit sudoku

Hilarious.

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bpavuk 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I miss o3 in that regard. if GPT-4o led people into virtual romance and over-validation, o3 gave me the same sort of "madness" but with work.

when I tried GPT-5, I was sad mostly because GPT-5 had some added wordiness. fluff, if you will. o3, though, is a black hole you can talk to, and it only gave information back if there was something to give back. that kind of vibe is my dream coworker

	▲	alexgoodhart 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I miss o1-pro :/

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waynecochran 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, it is hard, psychologically, to grant trust to some silly perverse little thing I want crush like a surreal cartoonish cockroach.

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Anon1096 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Absolutely ridiculous comment can't believe anyone would actually post this seriously.

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phoghed 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Physically cringed at this comment