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That’s..
this aigen?
or does my slop sense tingle wrongly?
Wrongly, I'm afraid. I remember this series of "alot" illustrations from years ago. IIRC a web comic author made them.
The origin of the alot is the blog hyperbole and a half, this article in particular. It is very cute tbh. I don't find it hard to believe that somebody drew this particular alot in response later on.
I tried a few reverse image search sites, none of them could find that exact image, not even something similar.
Also, that font is really similar to what AI might use.
I’d say it’s AI slop.
Similar alots stem from this blog from 2010
For some extra existential crisis, consider this.
In 1x10^10^^56 years, a new big bang could occur in the universe, through quantum tunneling.
If you multiply that with all possible ways in which all subatomic particles in the observable universe could be arranged (1x^10^^115), that might be a possible timeframe for a new universe exactly like ours.
That is, a universe in where you posted that comment, and I'm writing this right now. Maybe we're doing that a few seconds differently, but overall it's the same universe.