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by jerrylives 3235 days ago
> internal meme network

i really want to believe that at Google there is a massive distributed cluster dedicated solely to facilitating meme throughput

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There most likely is, I know an engineer that works on it.

Apparently they were one of the teams piloting Tensorflow for Android...have no idea why though....

Sometimes the best places to swing for the fences, technologically, are places far away from the core business, where the impact of a half-baked idea is minimal.
this is true. Source: I work at Google
Recently left Google and I can confirm, Memegen is real and draws significant resources to operate.
So reading the article above it didn't make clear - are these memes generated by AI or is it just an internal meme creation / sharing site?
the latter