My own personal experience? Look at the cesspool that is r/defendingaiart and behold a group of people who have never touched grass.

Hell, we get them here on Lemmy sometimes. Sometimes in this very community.

I’ve seen AI apologists say all of these things.

Pokémon are as smart as humans though. Sometimes smarter. It’s not really the same thing, is it?

I once saw YouTube auto generate captions on a video without any words in it.

I think this was the plot of the banned Porygon episode.

It’s from the song Alice’s Restaurant.

Both the anime and the Manga establish that the PC is merely a teleporter to professor oaks lab were he can study the ones you aren’t carrying. The games don’t mention this, but it might be the same there too.