@laurel @MK2boogaloo @Zerglingman @sysrq

> it has just proven such a successful grift

Yeah, VCs pumping their AI plays for that sweet, sweet exit event.

> Here's Knuth falling for it:

Someone lived long enough to become the villain.

> For some reason it's very difficult for users to grasp that it is just a stack overflow programmer.

Even programmers, apparently. A friend that is not a programmer asked it to generate some SVGs for her and it failed to even generate valid XML after several attempts. (She wanted to see an attempt at representing the Mandelbrot set as an SVG, which can't really be done unless the SVG is just a bunch of squares representing pixels. On the other hand, people that don't understand code are going to mostly ask it questions that are not possible to answer.)