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Large Chainsaw Model
The powered chainsaw was developed nearly a century ago. Its rise in prevalence has fundamentally changed the shape of human work in forestry and logging industries. But when was the last time you personally needed to use a chainsaw in your daily life?
By the late 1920s, gasoline power saws resembling the modern chainsaw began mass-production, and by the end of World War II their engines were small and reliable enough to be handled comfortably by a solo operator. They’re also noisy as hell, to the point where—if you listen hard enough to the sounds carried on the afternoon breeze through an American suburb—it seems like one can always detect the faint drone of some jerkass who fancies himself a lumberjack cutting down all the trees on his property. Some would say that, compared to the tangible hazards of losing a bodily extremity or dropping a pine trunk through the bedroom ceiling, misuse of AI by irresponsible or malicious actors sounds downright genteel.
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