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8 or 9 years is about right for when modern LLMs started. Do people really think LLMs just sprang into existence a few years ago with giant corporations pushing them?
The tech is decades old depending on how you look at it, and even under a rather strict definition it's pushing at least a decade.
To be fair to qualify for all of that unless your a researcher on transformer models or something I really doubt your going to find anyone that fits all those points for that length of time.
I remember fucking with an image generator in 2021