Generative Artificial Intelligence

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Welcome to the Generative AI community on Lemmy! This is a place where you can share and discuss anything related to generative AI, which is a kind of technology that can make new things, like pictures, words, or sounds, by learning from existing things. You can post your own creations, ask for feedback, share resources, or just chat with other fans. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, you are welcome here. Please follow the Lemmy etiquette and be respectful to each other. Have fun and enjoy the magic of generative AI!

P.s. Every aspect of this community was created with AI tools, isn't that nifty.

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AI's Dial-Up Era (www.wreflection.com)

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Right off the bat their writing is exaggerating the realities, which makes me not want to bother reading any more.

Dial-up connected virtually every time if you chose an ISP who'd provisioned enough modems for their customers to use.
The "first time in history, you can exchange letters with someone across the world in seconds" was over a decade prior to that - it just cost an arm and a leg for the service to do so (something like $7-10/hr in early-mid 1980s money, if I recall correctly). And that's just talking about commercial services available to the general public, as the universities, large businesses, and government/military that created the early networks had that ability before even then.
One-minute video did NOT take "hours" to download unless it was in an absurdly high quality for the time - something pretty unusual because of the common speed (and storage requirement) constraints.

Yeah, maybe I'll look at this later when my bullshit alarm settles down.