The term "cargo cult" comes from a racist story popularized by a sexual predator; I'll say that the AI industry is rife with mimetic isomorphism instead.
Not only are LLMs themselves automatic devices for imitating form without function or purpose, but you keep running into shit like this, where the AI industry forms "institutes" with "scientists" and "researchers," all imitating the form of academia but not its function of inquiry or curiosity.
