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by 23B1 673 days ago
Well the whole 'creating gods' thing is just silly fantasy nonsense to cover up for what's really going on, which is novelty and gimmicks.

It's okay, I mean even the internet started out as Charlie_Bit_Me.avi and free porn.
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findmore77 673 days ago
Factually incorrect about the genesis of the internet or even the “mass” internet. But, okay.
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23B1 673 days ago
Apologies, I totally forgot about the pedantry of arguing on the internet that really drove its adoption.
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Loughla 673 days ago
I mean, the Internet really seemed to take off when people realized they could get free porn, to be honest.

I'm betting the adoption curve for AI hits when the first company sells photorealistic porn of anyone you have a picture of. Hell, half ass Photoshop porn is lucrative already.

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llm_trw 673 days ago
You can do that with local models already.
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fragmede 673 days ago
> Charlie_Bit_Me.avi

Charlie Bit Me is of the YouTube generation, so it wasn't passed around as an avi email attachment like some older memes of the previous generation. From that long ago, Exploding Whale comes to mind.

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EasyMark 673 days ago
I’m not sure what book you read on the origins of the internet but it is very very far off from the actual truth.
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