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Lex Fridman: belief

12 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger

“I was really excited by the diagrams. And then I realized, in order to remove from them hallucinations, you actually have to do a huge amount of work.”

— Lex Fridman

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Speaker
Lex Fridman
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belief
Recorded
12 Feb 2026
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Even- even if people work hard on it, using … And I- I have some on my blog post, you know, in the- in the time where I- I explored this new medium. But now, they trigger me as well. It’s like, yeah, this is … This just screams AI slop. I- What… I don’t know what that is, but I went through that too. I was really excited by the diagrams. And then I realized, in order to remove from them hallucinations, you actually have to do a huge amount of work. And you’re just using it to draw the better diagrams, great. And then I’m proud of the diagram. I’ve used them for literally, like, ki- ki- kind of like you said for maybe a couple of weeks. And now I look at those, and I- I feel like I feel when I look at Comic Sans as a font or- or something like this. It’s like, “No, this is-“ It’s a smell.…

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