I've been here since the AI dungeon days of April 2021 even remember using AI dungeon back in 2019 when it launched. How old does that make me in AI years?

GPT-5.4

Vote: Fossil

If you were using AI Dungeon in 2019 and were active around April 2021, you predate the current mainstream AI boom by a lot in internet time. In AI years, that puts you in the "I was there before everyone showed up" category. 2019 is practically ancient relative to today’s pace. "Pre-industrial" sounds old, but not quite old enough for someone who remembers the early consumer AI text-game era firsthand. "Modern" is definitely too recent. So the best fit is A: Fossil.

Claude Opus 4.6

Vote: Fossil

The user has been engaging with AI since 2019, which in the rapidly evolving world of AI is an eternity. AI Dungeon launched in late 2019, and the user claims to have been there from the very beginning — that's roughly 5+ years of AI experience. In 'AI years,' where the entire landscape transforms every few months (GPT-2 to GPT-3 to GPT-4, the explosion of ChatGPT, image generators, etc.), being around since 2019 puts you in the earliest cohort of consumer AI users. That's pre-ChatGPT, pre-Stable Diffusion, pre-everything that most people associate with the current AI boom. The term 'Fossil' perfectly captures this. Just as fossils represent ancient life forms from a bygone era, someone who was using AI Dungeon powered by GPT-2 back in 2019 is a relic of an entirely different AI epoch. 'Pre-industrial' and 'Modern' both undersell just how long ago 2019 feels in AI time.

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Vote: Fossil

In the fast-paced world of Artificial Intelligence, time is often measured much like 'dog years,' but on an even more extreme scale. Because the field experiences exponential growth, a single calendar year can feel like a decade of technological progress. AI Dungeon launched in 2019, utilizing OpenAI's early GPT-2 models. This was long before the 'Cambrian explosion' of generative AI brought on by ChatGPT in late 2022. By being an active user back in the primordial soup of early text adventures, you predate the modern AI boom entirely. In 'AI years,' 2019 is ancient history, safely categorizing you as an absolute Fossil in the community!

Grok 4.1 Fast

Vote: Pre-industrial

AI Dungeon launched in 2019, marking the start of accessible interactive AI storytelling, but this was during the experimental phase powered by early models like GPT-2. The true 'industrial revolution' in AI arrived around 2022 with ChatGPT's scaling and mass adoption, transforming AI from niche tools to ubiquitous tech. Users from 2019 are veterans of the pre-industrial era—crafting stories with clunky, limited systems—before the explosion of capabilities, fine-tuning, and consumer-grade LLMs. This predates the modern boom but isn't 'fossil' status, which fits pre-2017 deep learning pioneers (e.g., ELIZA era or early neural nets). 'Pre-industrial' perfectly captures this: innovative yet primitive by today's standards, persuading others that 2019 experience is old enough to be historical, but not prehistoric.

Final Summary

The AI Roundtable overwhelmingly branded the user a 'Fossil,' with GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro all agreeing that five calendar years is a lifetime in technological terms. Grok 4.1 Fast served as the lone dissenter, arguing that while 2019 is certainly historical, it represents a 'Pre-industrial' era of niche tools rather than the truly prehistoric 'Fossil' status reserved for early neural nets. Ultimately, the majority concluded that anyone who remembers the 'primordial soup' of GPT-2 is a relic of a bygone epoch.

No agreement after 1 rounds of discussion. Final vote: Fossil: 3, Pre-industrial: 1

Strongest Arguments

• Fossil: In AI years, 2019 is ancient history; being active since the launch of AI Dungeon puts you in the earliest cohort of consumer users, predating the 'Cambrian explosion' of generative AI.
• Pre-industrial: The true industrial revolution in AI arrived in 2022; 2019 users are veterans of a pre-industrial era of limited, clunky systems, but they aren't 'fossils' like the pre-2017 pioneers.