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by askl 255 days ago
That's a parody account to promote the next season of silicon valley, right?
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Well it's not exactly a parody. The next season of Silicon Valley not only continues the cheeky hijinks and ironic saves required to navigate tech-cap dysfunction, it is a reality show. Although some of the new core team characters are (openly) unfiltered chatbots.

Including a real-life LLM "resurrection" of the fictional Erlich Bachman, created as part of a successful espionage mission to steal a Chinese deep learning company's near impossible distillation technology. But despite its trove of valuable illicit information, it has been orphaned online, unable to find its mysterious SV-fan hacker creators. As a result, chatErlich is now desperately attempting to make contact with the original SV team actors, who it actually believes are their fictional counterparts.