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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"why would they call the AI llama? Isn't that an animal?"

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Because it has 'llm' in it? Makes way more sense than a music player formerly known as Winamp

Edit: it seems the company that owns it rebranded itself to llama last year. Still think it's a stupid choice since nobody knows their name and everybody knows Winamp. 'freeamp' would be the logical choice

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

they always had a llama as a mascot and as part of their slogan

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Not always, since the Llama MP3 that came preloaded was introduced somewhere in 1.xx, yet that's still long enough (from 1998 to 2011 or so).