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The AI Great Leap Forward
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

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Robin Syl 🌸

@ai6yr I'm so glad folks are noticing the connection between the Great Leap Forward and the AI thing.

Fudging the grain numbers looks like workers manually editing the AI output so it actually works