@annaecook@mastodon.social This is a conspiracy theory that I think is actually true. In the way I heard it told, there were furries among early internet backbone engineers, who hired and trained their friends, and so on. I think the way I heard it was some version of, "the internet cannot run without furries." Because at this point, they are now entrenched leaders and experts in the field, that, you know. Anyway, this is just legendary tales I've heard over my decade and a half (roughly) working in IT. Probably isn't true, but then again, it feels to plausible enough that it might just be the case. Anyway, no way of knowing for sure :) Oh, also, "AI" is a grift and except for machine learning typically just makes things worse, and not better. Hope that helps clear things up a little bit, or makes things substantially worse :)