The part about ADs and Artificial Intelligence being internationally banned gave me chills. Makes one wonder how far people got before things got shut down, and what AI might still exist somewhere in the world in black sites where research can go unnoticed. Are there possibly a few AI cores disguised as something harmless (like regular sub-AI AD cores) being handed around through the black market, were they all successfully destroyed along with the knowledge for creating them, or has an artificial sentient thought never been experienced and all this caution and censorship is being done as a preventative measure to something theoretically possible? It's really a fascinating setup.
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