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Would you hit play on a show written by code, or does the human touch make anime special?



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If it has a good story and characters, then why not? I don't really care who makes it as long as I enjoy it.

Anyway, AI still has a lot to learn before it is able to make some great quality stuff.

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Apr 14, 6:47 AM
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LoL at you fools thinking technology will "fix" the world's problems.
Apr 14, 6:52 AM
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Is it also drawn by AI? I'd probably watch one for the memes.
Apr 14, 6:53 AM
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I don't think current AI is capable of being artistic. It just mimics art without sense.
Apr 14, 6:57 AM
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Not because I think it will be good, but just as an experiment
Apr 14, 7:02 AM
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I don't want sounds too essentialist but it does require a human touch. I want art created with a purpose and not just algorithm made slop
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Apr 14, 7:04 AM
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Sure, it can probably write some interesting and entertaining stuff.
Apr 14, 7:07 AM
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If it is written by a robot from the future so advanced that it is capable of having its own emotions, then yes.

Apr 14, 7:26 AM

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Been there, done that. https://myanimelist.net/anime/54357/Inu_to_Shounen
I'll watch anything which caters my taste, produced in any way and written by any entity. Why not?

Apr 14, 7:27 AM

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If it fits my standards for ecchi and nudity, then yes i would watch it.
Apr 14, 7:34 AM

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Title: Aether Drifters: Chrome Pulse



Synopsis:
In the shattered world of Virelia, ancient magic and lost technology coexist in chaotic tension. Floating continents drift across the skies, kept aloft by mysterious Aether Crystals—sources of both arcane power and scientific marvel. In this fractured society, rogue machines known as Null Beasts hunt down anything that emits an Aether signal.

Enter Kael Rynhart, a blue-haired runaway with a half-destroyed mecha arm, a holographic visor flickering with warnings, and a backpack full of contraband tech.




Once a child prodigy in the imperial techno-academy, Kael vanished after witnessing a forbidden fusion between sorcery and machinery. Now, he races through ruined skyways and broken citadels, pursued by both human enforcers and corrupted automata.

Armed with a sentient drone named Pylon, and a prototype "Aether Frame" armor that syncs with his emotions, Kael becomes an unwilling hero. He doesn't want to save the world—just survive it. But when he rescues a mysterious girl sealed in a mech-shaped sarcophagus and discovers she holds the last pure Aether Core, his path changes. Together, they must pilot the resurrected Titan-Relic "Aegis Varion" to stop an ancient entity threatening to reset the world.

With gears spinning, spells flying, and past regrets crashing in like broken code, Kael’s journey becomes a battle between fate and freedom.

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No, probably not this one, but then again it's not my genre stuff.

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AI Prompt: Write me a random synopsis on the genres: Action, Mecha, Fantasy. The anime must feature a blue-haired boy running with his tech objects on him.
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Apr 14, 7:44 AM

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Why not. Some human beings make such terrible anime I believe AI would do much better.
Apr 14, 7:52 AM

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As long as it's enjoyable, why not? Most people who enjoy anime don't even know who the producers are, and you can only pray they know the voice actors or actresses.
Apr 14, 7:53 AM

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Why not. Some human beings make such terrible anime I believe AI would do much better.
@Nemo_Niemand Nah because this is so true XD
Apr 14, 7:53 AM

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I'm not going to discriminate against AI versus humans. If AI produces a series or film I would enjoy, a meal which would bring me gustatory delight, a car or garden landscaped-park which provides ease of transport or convenience or beauty and leisure, then there is no reason for me not to embrace it other than mindless discrimination and prejudice.
Apr 14, 7:58 AM

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Yes, out of curiosity I'd check it out for sure.

The creative process is a recombination of preexisting ideas, nothing comes out of thin air. The issue is that AI still isn't a real intelligence (AGI) so I don't think it could write anything particularly good, maybe something of average quality at best.
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Human touch matters. A part of the appeal of anime for me is learning about who the staff behind each project and what kind of roles they had, techniques they implemented etc. When that gets severed it's hard to feel any passion.
Apr 14, 8:11 AM

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There are enough borderline AI generated isekai each season.

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If they didn't even bother writing it than why should I bother reading it (or watching in this case)?

I'll probably watch one in the future if only to be able to talk about it properly. But I'm not really interested in something written by AI.
Apr 14, 8:28 AM

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There are enough borderline AI generated isekai each season.
@Piromysl Yea I kinda thought that for a moment. But really, who knows... and would it matter that much if it was better.
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Also, robots are your friends
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Apr 14, 9:09 AM

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"Ew ai" aside... I wouldn't because AI is just not very creative lmao. It will either be painfully generic slop (at best), or complete nonsense that's only merit is in watching how far off the rails it gets without human guidance (at worst)
Apr 14, 9:09 AM

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I would not watch an anime written or drawn by AI, as I am a human supremacist.
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Apr 14, 9:14 AM

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No, absolutely not. I don't approve of AI-generated art in any form, but I'd rather look at AI-drawn art and listen to AI-composed music than watch an AI-written story.

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If they didn't even bother writing it than why should I bother reading it (or watching in this case)?

Exactly.

While we're at it, I should just get an AI to read/watch it for me. And I wouldn't even care to listen to the summary, because that would likely be more effort and care than what the "creator" put into it.
Apr 14, 9:47 AM

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I think in most cases people are trying to make an effort in their minds to dislike AI, but it comes naturally that it is pretty good so it is this constant struggle to overwrite it. Like when Ben Shapiro was actively trying to misgender a trans figure but his mind was not having it so he accidentally correctly gendered her.

You can tell by the fact that, when not told whether it is AI, people seem to rate AI generated poems quite high, in fact, much higher than the classical human poems.

Source: AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably
(It should also be mentioned this is a pre-registered study, so they couldn't have thrown the finding in the bin if it didn't go their way, but had to publish regardless)



They are also worse than random chance at identifying what is an AI poem and what is human, meaning a chimpanzee would distinguish it better since it'd randomly press on one (46.6%, N = 16340, p < 0.0001).

Also, when told what they're reading is AI, it reduces their opinion of its quality regardless of it was actually AI or not (the magnitude of the reduction is even higher when a human poem is presented as AI)

The AI being rated higher does not change when you break it down to different qualitative measures instead of simple "overall quality".



If you are of the opinion that AI content is like fast food, this study with a sampling size of 16340 and p value of less than 0.0001 will tell you that people are less likely than a coin toss at figuring out which of the two plates they eat is fast food and which is Michelin Star meal. Not only that, they prefer the fast food by a huge margin when you don't tell which is fast food and what is Michelin Star.

Do with that information as you will, whether you are going to change the initial hypothesis of fast food, or your opinion about people's perceptions.
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Is it any good? That's the real question.
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Apr 14, 10:56 AM

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If it's interesting and entertaining then why not.
Apr 14, 8:38 PM

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Yes most definitely I will watch it, and discuss it in episode discussions and laugh at the absurd Anti-Ai theories and bizarre comments to suit their narratives it wouldn’t be surprising if they continues to rack up more anime with Ai
Apr 14, 8:43 PM

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If i can generate the same story with a few clicks then what's the point?
Apr 14, 8:50 PM

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Maybe I'd check out a project out of curiousity, but probably not. The point of art is human expression, an entire story being made by an AI kinda ruins the whole point.
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I think in most cases people are trying to make an effort in their minds to dislike AI, but it comes naturally that it is pretty good so it is this constant struggle to overwrite it. Like when Ben Shapiro was actively trying to misgender a trans figure but his mind was not having it so he accidentally correctly gendered her.

You can tell by the fact that, when not told whether it is AI, people seem to rate AI generated poems quite high, in fact, much higher than the classical human poems.

Source: AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably
(It should also be mentioned this is a pre-registered study, so they couldn't have thrown the finding in the bin if it didn't go their way, but had to publish regardless)



They are also worse than random chance at identifying what is an AI poem and what is human, meaning a chimpanzee would distinguish it better since it'd randomly press on one (46.6%, N = 16340, p < 0.0001).

Also, when told what they're reading is AI, it reduces their opinion of its quality regardless of it was actually AI or not (the magnitude of the reduction is even higher when a human poem is presented as AI)

The AI being rated higher does not change when you break it down to different qualitative measures instead of simple "overall quality".



If you are of the opinion that AI content is like fast food, this study with a sampling size of 16340 and p value of less than 0.0001 will tell you that people are less likely than a coin toss at figuring out which of the two plates they eat is fast food and which is Michelin Star meal. Not only that, they prefer the fast food by a huge margin when you don't tell which is fast food and what is Michelin Star.

Do with that information as you will, whether you are going to change the initial hypothesis of fast food, or your opinion about people's perceptions.
Auron said:
If you are of the opinion that AI content is like fast food

Considering that an order of magnitude more people eat fast food rather than Michelin Star meals, in a way calling AI that seems fitting.
In fact, the study you've linked literally concludes that:
Our findings suggest that participants employed shared yet flawed heuristics to differentiate AI from human poetry: the simplicity of AI-generated poems may be easier for non-experts to understand, leading them to prefer AI-generated poetry and misinterpret the complexity of human poems as incoherence generated by AI.
In this way, I don't think anyone really denies that, commercially speaking, using AI is an obvious choice.

"Culture is the rule, Art is the exception".
In a way this doesn't really surprises me: I used to (And still do) complained about the overall quality of the Brazilian television... then I learned that, given access to the internet, the average Brazilian chose to instead watch things that are so, so much worse... and they're likely happier than ever by doing that.

Granted, my views on AI aren't really based on it's quality, my main point being that "If it isn't a human making art, then there's no point to it", but considering that you're in the website where this is the top 50 best ranked anime, you should known that the ratings of the average Joe really don't say (Or mean) much in therms of something's quality.
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thewiru said:
Considering that an order of magnitude more people eat fast food rather than Michelin Star meals, in a way calling AI that seems fitting.


Obviously the financial cost to eating fast food and eating a Michelin Star meal greatly differ, so people eating fast food more is consistent in the hypothesis that all else equal median person would prefer to eat the Michelin Star meal, just as it is in its inverse.

The correct analogy would be, given the free choice or equal cost choice to eat either fast food or Michelin Star meal, most mistaking which is which, and preferring the fast food.

thewiru said:
In fact, the study you've linked literally concludes that:


It's not necessarily concluding that no. What they're hypothesizing is it could be the participants are using flawed heuristics to delineate, which may be mistaking complexity with incoherence or understanding simplicity better. It merely talks about the complexity, but one could argue there is beauty in simplicity in certain respects as well. So it's not a assertion of quality by authors.

thewiru said:
considering that you're in the website where this is the top 50 best ranked anime, you should known that the ratings of the average Joe really don't say (Or mean) much in therms of something's quality


To the contrary, I don't know that at all, the top 50 anime as far as I can see much better written than the median anime or even the median top quintile anime. My average rating is 5.87, quick calculation tells me my average score among the top 50 that I've seen (n=18) is 7.50.
Apr 15, 5:10 AM

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Of course.

I think the distinction is meaningless. As long as it's good I don't care how it was made.


Apr 15, 10:42 AM

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as long as the script is edited to have at least some amount of human element and the rest of the production isn't AI, of course.
Apr 15, 10:59 AM

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More than written by AI, I want to see an entirely AI animated anime in the near future when AI tech finally gets there.
Apr 15, 11:02 AM

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It depends on whose AI really. You don't want the Sweet Baby Inc AI writing your script or brainstorming ideas with your diversity hires.

Nine times out of ten (my source is that I made it the fuck up) yall don't even know the corpo AI is a crippled castrate and yall getting ass blasted by small indie AI.
Apr 15, 11:05 AM
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You expect me to believe that some of the isekai slop I've already seen was not based on a light novel written by an AI?
Apr 15, 11:12 AM
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not now, but it will get better. isekai is written by ai these days, and it's still crap.
but everything will be irrelevant, when ai technology gets to that point, it will also define the meaning of "good story"... so we're f...ckd
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Having faith in AI is very ridiculous. Of course, ignoring that AI is nothing more than a tool for the governments for controlling/survelliancing the masses right before human extinction finally arrives.
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thewiru said:
Considering that an order of magnitude more people eat fast food rather than Michelin Star meals, in a way calling AI that seems fitting.


Obviously the financial cost to eating fast food and eating a Michelin Star meal greatly differ, so people eating fast food more is consistent in the hypothesis that all else equal median person would prefer to eat the Michelin Star meal, just as it is in its inverse.

The correct analogy would be, given the free choice or equal cost choice to eat either fast food or Michelin Star meal, most mistaking which is which, and preferring the fast food.

thewiru said:
In fact, the study you've linked literally concludes that:


It's not necessarily concluding that no. What they're hypothesizing is it could be the participants are using flawed heuristics to delineate, which may be mistaking complexity with incoherence or understanding simplicity better. It merely talks about the complexity, but one could argue there is beauty in simplicity in certain respects as well. So it's not a assertion of quality by authors.

thewiru said:
considering that you're in the website where this is the top 50 best ranked anime, you should known that the ratings of the average Joe really don't say (Or mean) much in therms of something's quality


To the contrary, I don't know that at all, the top 50 anime as far as I can see much better written than the median anime or even the median top quintile anime. My average rating is 5.87, quick calculation tells me my average score among the top 50 that I've seen (n=18) is 7.50.
Auron said:
The correct analogy would be, given the free choice or equal cost choice to eat either fast food or Michelin Star meal, most mistaking which is which, and preferring the fast food.

The thing is that using AI will always be cheaper than doing it by hand, so...
Auron said:
It's not necessarily concluding that no.

I should have worded myself better, but it was hypothesized that this was due to people making the link "If I like it, it's by a human, if I don't, then it's AI".
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No, never in my life would I watch an anime written by AI. I would rather catch up on Rent A Girlfriend than even CONSIDER touching that.
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I may watch some on occasion, but I think I would still rather a human touch. So maybe I watch 10 or so anime completely written by AI. But eventually I want to know there were people behind it.

I suspect this would be true of me even if AI were in some sense better than humans at writing. Consider the following: AI is undoubtedly better at chess than humans. But people don't want to watch computers playing chess. They want to watch humans playing chess.

Now, I don't mind at all if someone makes the anime in collaboration with AI. But I don't want someone who just mostly let the AI do its thing such that for all intents and purposes, the AI is the real author.

That said, I'm perfectly fine with the idea of watching a show where the animation is all done by AI when AI gets to be good enough.
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I think in most cases people are trying to make an effort in their minds to dislike AI, but it comes naturally that it is pretty good so it is this constant struggle to overwrite it. Like when Ben Shapiro was actively trying to misgender a trans figure but his mind was not having it so he accidentally correctly gendered her.

You can tell by the fact that, when not told whether it is AI, people seem to rate AI generated poems quite high, in fact, much higher than the classical human poems.

Source: AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably
(It should also be mentioned this is a pre-registered study, so they couldn't have thrown the finding in the bin if it didn't go their way, but had to publish regardless)



They are also worse than random chance at identifying what is an AI poem and what is human, meaning a chimpanzee would distinguish it better since it'd randomly press on one (46.6%, N = 16340, p < 0.0001).

Also, when told what they're reading is AI, it reduces their opinion of its quality regardless of it was actually AI or not (the magnitude of the reduction is even higher when a human poem is presented as AI)

The AI being rated higher does not change when you break it down to different qualitative measures instead of simple "overall quality".



If you are of the opinion that AI content is like fast food, this study with a sampling size of 16340 and p value of less than 0.0001 will tell you that people are less likely than a coin toss at figuring out which of the two plates they eat is fast food and which is Michelin Star meal. Not only that, they prefer the fast food by a huge margin when you don't tell which is fast food and what is Michelin Star.

Do with that information as you will, whether you are going to change the initial hypothesis of fast food, or your opinion about people's perceptions.
@Auron This reminds me so much of a video of a Chinese restaurant doing a test of seeing who could recognize being served instant noodles over real noodles. I think 80% of the customers served thought the instant noodles were the real thing, one of them swore that it was just like the ones he ate in the region of China he visited.

It honestly says a lot more of the people being served than the test alone. Everyone claims that they have great taste, but again, are they the ones who try new things and even save up for a big night at a fancy and expensive restaurant now and then, or are they the ones who don't even put that much thought into what they buy at the grocery store or the gas station for dinner time? Do they seek out new cookbooks and new recipes they'd love to try, or do they blindly eat out at a fast food joint for most of the week without thinking about it?

Even the character of the crowd ought to be judged for their criterion as well. Beware popular opinion, be it from the experts or the crowd. We already got a few people here going on about how people can't make good series nowadays and are already putting it in the hands of the AI to appease them.
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Probably. Also knowing current gen AI capabilities, there's definitely gonna be a lot of holes in the story, lmao
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as long as i enjoy the story writing then i do not care who writes it
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No. Have no interest in the result of what is likely some corpo trying to push out as much trash as possible because "who needs those pesky writers".
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If it's really worth watching, why not
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I think in most cases people are trying to make an effort in their minds to dislike AI, but it comes naturally that it is pretty good so it is this constant struggle to overwrite it. Like when Ben Shapiro was actively trying to misgender a trans figure but his mind was not having it so he accidentally correctly gendered her.

You can tell by the fact that, when not told whether it is AI, people seem to rate AI generated poems quite high, in fact, much higher than the classical human poems.

Source: AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably
(It should also be mentioned this is a pre-registered study, so they couldn't have thrown the finding in the bin if it didn't go their way, but had to publish regardless)



They are also worse than random chance at identifying what is an AI poem and what is human, meaning a chimpanzee would distinguish it better since it'd randomly press on one (46.6%, N = 16340, p < 0.0001).

Also, when told what they're reading is AI, it reduces their opinion of its quality regardless of it was actually AI or not (the magnitude of the reduction is even higher when a human poem is presented as AI)

The AI being rated higher does not change when you break it down to different qualitative measures instead of simple "overall quality".



If you are of the opinion that AI content is like fast food, this study with a sampling size of 16340 and p value of less than 0.0001 will tell you that people are less likely than a coin toss at figuring out which of the two plates they eat is fast food and which is Michelin Star meal. Not only that, they prefer the fast food by a huge margin when you don't tell which is fast food and what is Michelin Star.

Do with that information as you will, whether you are going to change the initial hypothesis of fast food, or your opinion about people's perceptions.
@Auron yes, people prefer slop. I think we knew that. But there's no shortage of slop so what's the point of AI? Cheaper slop? Talk about aiming high!
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I would refuse to watch something written in that way as AI inherently can't create anything new, it can just regurgitate generic ideas
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No, not unless there's enough I can say about it. If there's enough for me to critique and tear apart, I'd watch it to do just that. Things written by generative AI/LLMs are always going to be terrible (albeit some of it is barely passable), so it shouldn't be hard to find things to critique. It's just a matter of how bad it is. I won't pay for something that I know was made by AI, so the only way I'd watch it is by pirating it. I don't pay thieves so artistically bankrupt they resort to using AI and stealing from artists instead of creating their own art. The good news is the whole AI grift will collapse just as NFTs and crypto did before. Tech bros will move on to the next stupid thing.
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