• cardfire@sh.itjust.works
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    Fun fact, early scripts for the original film had Humanity plugged in to share computational processing Power for the Machines, but the studios didn’t believe audiences could grasp that so it was changed to providing electricity.

    Which is impossible, the whole feeding cycle for harvesting us as batteries would yield less power than just using the feed source for power.

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      Another thought is we are in there to help the AI improve. As with our world the training data needs to keep coming, we are writing the programs that control us in the matrix