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 If you're wondering why I'm so careful and restrained with what I boost about "AI", despite poking at the tech myself, I finally have the word to tell you

Thanks to @b92dcc07 for pointing me to the term "criti-hype" in his latest:

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship-236575979d5c 
 @82876015 I have encountered two IRL and was shocked to learn on Wikipedia that the man did hundreds

(I don't think he had a foundation then, or if he did it was subordinate to him as he was still alive)

I worried that no one would ever find them all, randomly scattered places as they were, and the absurdity and cruelty would be lost

I'm glad someone did