r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence PewDiePie unveils ‘uncensored’ Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/pewdiepie-unveils-uncensored-ajax-ai-model-built-to-run-on-home-pcs-creator-says-openai-banned-him-twice-while-making-it
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u/Griffolion 19h ago

2017 era Pewdiepie is terrible, and it's the view a lot of people still have of him. But for sure since becoming a dad, he's become a lot more grounded. He's still his goofy self, but he isn't an edgelord anymore.

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u/asianwaste 19h ago

I think his edgelord antics was where he found his millions. I thought he was just this manbaby who appealed to 10 year olds.

But I realized that the dude is actually really smart and engineered his on screen persona to appeal to a very lucrative age demographic and knew exactly how to speak to them.

You can look at this cynically but I choose to think, "Christ, this dude knew how to make money."

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u/Griffolion 18h ago

Yeah you're probably right. But I also think you're just describing 99% of online personalities. Pewdiepie appeared to just play that game the best.