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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're trying to assign agency to a natural process. It doesn't work like that no matter how many times you ask why.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's kinda how LLMs are, in that there is no agency involved and yet people can't help but anthropomorphise the process.

The flowers that look like various insects especially remind me of AI generated images.