Why LLMs and Image Engines Depend on the Prior Existence of the Web

Data Bros forget that GenAI works because general web developed organically and independently to become a sort of our collective Jungian subconscious.
Absent that, all the MSFT riches couldn't have commanded a general web into existence!
A modern LLM pre-trained on a ~1992-93… pic.twitter.com/aLTu1waFD1

— Subbarao Kambhampati (కంభంపాటి సుబ్బారావు) (@rao2z) January 11, 2024