We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

My first thought upon reading this was that an LLM had been instructed to add a pithy meme joke to each paragraph. They don't make sense in context, and while some terminally online people do speak in memes, those people aren't quoting doge in 2025.

There's also a sense of incoherence in the whole piece. For instance, this section:

"- after: 22 million videos + 1 million images (now we're talking)

they basically hoovered up everything: something-something v2, kinetics, howto100m, and a billion youtube videos"

Was it a billion vids or 22m? It turns out the latter sentence is just rephrasing the list of sources in a cool casual way, and the last one is called YT-Temporal-1B. That's a billion frames of video, not a billion videos.

You may be surprised to find out how incorrect this.

I can think of two popular conservative sites likely to quote Doge people off hand that do this. I read all news in order not be an insufferable ideologue. So again, off the top of my head, NotTheBee (I think affiliated to BabylonBee (conservative The Onion)) and Twitchy. Among YouTubers, I think Asmond Gold, and I’m sure others like Steven Crowder who himself is in a famous meme.

That said… yea, you are probably right.