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I haven't heard the podcast. Did they make the distinction between "lab created" and "accidental release?"

Some of Wade's ideas are interesting, but I don't like his guilty-until-proven-innocent tone regarding lab creation.

On the other hand, accidental release is a different matter with clear precedent. It is generally accepted that SARS-CoV originated in animals, yet it also generally accepted that SARS-CoV was accidentally released from multiple laboratories in the early 2000s, resulting in pocket outbreaks:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/

The point isn't about Nvidia graphic cards, but rather, the Nvidia-backed website that is being used to generate false personalities on the fly (and what people can do to avoid being tricked by the technology): https://thispersondoesnotexist.com

I like playing around with "Million Short" - https://millionshort.com. It's a search engine that lets you logarithmically filter-out the top websites. It isn't perfect, of course, but its a fun way to discover things.

The web wasn't mob-like at all in the beginning. Most of the content was created by reasonably educated people who were publishing because of passion, not profit or other motives.