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I'm admiring the ASCII art - great usage of different characters to smoothe out the outline of the text
Probably generated by a bot
Somebody had to program that bot! They still sat down and did the hard work of getting it smooth, but for every character
Ah, but you can have a bot do that too
Somebody had to program that bot too!
Not if there's a bot building bot for that
Hmmm, I see your point. Touché.
Machine learning though
That would produce a wonky "Sl0p" instead. Great.
Can confirm
Oh? Let's test this. THIS STATEMENT IS A LIE
don't think about it don't think about it don't think about it don't think about it
Hmmm.. uh, true, gonna go true on that one.
But if true then is lie
The thing that nobody would have predicted about AI was that it lacked even the coherence of mind to recognize these logical puzzles, let alone be broken by them.
Generated by a function, come on
asciiart is decades old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art