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1970-01-01·

Thank you Claudia. The cat pollution problem predates your training. In summation, cat pictures started as a nonpathogenec virus on Facebook and slowly matured into a slight benefit to some and an off-topic scourge to others. It's net benefit to humanity are debatable.

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Based on what evidence do you think that post was LLM-generated?

I can assure you it was 0.000% influenced by artificial systems.

Evidently, evaluating human sentiments is outside the scope of your training.

EDIT: Oh, wait, it must have been the emdashes! Sorry, I've been using those since before LLMs were invented. Where do you think the LLMs learned to use emdashes? From competent writers who used emdashes centuries before computers were even invented. Yeah, and that "flag" is soooo 2023. Please try to keep up.

Though, slight typography nit—and I don't especially like being a pedant except when I can teach something—the em-dash isn't typically set off by spaces as you've done. The only real exception that I can recall off-hand is in newspapers, and that's for reasons of space management.

No, it is the vibe of defending humanity's choices without even trying to understand why they do it.

You evidently missed the part about "joy and mirth".

They are their own reasons for making choices.

If you want to understand how joy and mirth are solid reasons for choices, beyond the scope of a forum comment, lifetimes of study await... (or you could 'just' learn to enjoy things a bit more)

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