It’s definitely not sentient but to call it simple is definitely inaccurate.

The coating is usually a scale build up and not an intentional coating.

Last I checked all browsers on IOS are required by Apple to be basically a reskinned Safari.

It’s basically a joke on how gradient descent works in machine learning.

What do you mean by “stay alive”? LLMs are statistical models that require a lot of number crunching in order to output a response. That’s not something you can just host without some major costs associated (Far more than any single Fediverse instance for sure, GPUs are not cheap to rent).

Probably referring to free open-source software and not just free to download.