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> The phrase itself was popular enough that OpenAI employees created a special “Feel the AGI” reaction emoji in Slack.

I know it's small and kind of a throw-away line, but statements like this make me take this author's interpretation of the rest of these events with a healthy dose of skepticism. At my company we have multiple company "memes" like this that have been turned into reacji, but the vast majority of them are not because it's "popular" but rather because we use it ironically or to make fun of the meme. Just the fact that an employee turned it into a reacji is a total non-event and I don't think you can read anything from it.

>>arrake+(OP)
That quote is a statement of fact, it doesn't imply anything one way or the other.

>>minima+d
Yes it does, it says within the quote that the phrase was "popular" and is using the creation of a reacji as supporting evidence. The fact that an employee made a reacji of something does not mean it is popular. It takes a extremely low amount of effort from an extremely low amount of people (often, just one person) to create a custom reacji.

>>arrake+(OP)
How many of those reacjis have you been lead in a chant for though?

>>minima+d
Well that's not how any of this works. Connotations and subtext are a thing, particularly in the choice of including or not including a particular quote in a piece of journalism.

>>arrake+v
But they put the effort to create it and others recollect it?

>>eloc49+Z
Being awkwardly goaded by your boss to chant some weird company saying at a company holiday party is _exactly_ the kind of stuff that people make fun of after-the-fact by making memes about it (speaking from experience here... which is why this phrase in the article gave me pause in the first place).

There's not enough info in this article to know if it was seen as weird by the employees or not, but my point is that "they created a reacji of it" isn't evidence one way or the other for it being "popular".

>>arrake+D1
Right. Exhibit A is Steve Ballmer infamously chanting “developers, developers, developers”

>>arrake+v
You can have a "popular" phrase in a company that's popular because people are making fun of it and the people that use it unironically.