I've wondered this. ai was in development for years and years before it entered the public conversation. it was my experience that industrial grade machine learning was available at least a decade ago. there's really no telling how much further advanced a military grade distemper could/would be given an extra decade in development – but i see how rapidly "free consumer grade" llms grown in the last two or three years.
that's the funniest/scariest part of pseudoanonymous boards. anyone could just be a glorified script.