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lapfog_1

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11. you have no idea who I am...
Sun Mar 8, 2026, 03:59 PM
23 hrs ago

who do you think helped invent the "tech that works"?

I wrote some of the initial code for the IMPs in 1975. I was making the Arpanet work long before Tim Berners-Lee came along with HTML ( and the WWW ).

AI is just a tool, like any tool it can be used for good or evil, ethically or unethically.

No different than the Internet, the Arpanet, the IBM 360, the Eniac or any of the mechanical machines that preceded it.

You don't like AI. You think everything it produces is "slop" as you call it. Others disagree. Please feel free to not use it.

I will continue to use it for what I want. I find it a useful tool. I don't make fake videos with it or post AI generated pictures. Any tool can be misused. It is not the fault of the tool.

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