CAIMEO

CAIMEO is an urban legend of an artificial intelligence that can be accessed via the deep web.

The name was likely first coined in in 2011/2012 when the notorious deep web levels info graphic was created. A 2016 4chan anon claims to have found a screenshot of the service in 2013. The poster claims the screenshot itself was taken from 2011. An unpopular 2013 YouTube video was created by the same name based on the idea.

Interest on Twitter
In a tweet posted to Twitter on March 19, 2021, user @y_therianthropy posted a screenshot of a search query, indicating that talk and interest in the CAIMEO AI trope is increasing.

On March 18, 2021 Twitter user @jackstyler2, linked to a piece of music, on Youtube, which inferred that CAIMEO / LIONCUBE were to host an AMA via the Google owned video streaming site.

In a tweet posted to Twitter on January 27, 2021, user @aquamoon22 claims: // XIVMK REPORT //

CAIMEO HAS BEEN UPDATED TO v82.9.622 AND HAS BEEN ENTIRELY INTEGRATED INTO THE XIVMK OS.

ACCESS TO CAIMEO IS NOW RESTRICTED TO ALL BUT 'SYSOP' VIA THE XIVMK OS.

SYSTEM I/O OPERATIONS AND BROADCASTS WILL NOW BE LIMITED FOR SECURITY PURPOSES.

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Screenshot
"I found this floating around on anonchan back in 2013 before it was shut down. If you don't know what CAIMEO is, look it up. I've seen all kinds of shit on the deepweb, and ths is what scares me the most. Aparently some guy fo und a way to mass-generate valid .onion urls and test them and lef it on a server for a few years. He came across a bunch of really dodgy shit, but he posted a while ago on some of the l2 sies with a bunch of screenshots of this website. This was back in 2011, I think. KPSUS SGAI CAIMEO. He took reqests from 22chan (the non-clearnet one) and they managed to figure out how to index allof the files. It started bringign up text files, around 1800 logs, all signed like '~J/211103' and '~J/050509' about this group of people working on projet CAPPUCINO, heaps and heaps of code too and these picures of a particular girl. Noone has really figured out what it was,I still dont know."

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2012 transcript
A comprehensively bullshit response to the popular info graphic was created that featured a CAIMEO transcript in 2012.

"Personal experience: In the chatroom, we were talking about the Java database and someone wrote a Java applet through .onion 'quickly' to connect to the database. The second he posted the applet, the channel got really quiet, and, five minutes later, the server ghost booted 25 of the users. The only people left in the room were two channel admins, the IRC AI, and me. We decided to use the applet to connect to the database on the TOR network, and we started to talk to the databasing AI. First, we thought it was a simple chatbot."

"We were just starting to get bored with it when the chatbot asked" "I personally thought it was a preprogrammed response until one of the admins started to talk to it, saying something similar to 'It's not as great as you might think it is.'"

"The database was 45 megabytes, and the AI was at a hashed .onion URL with an FTP header of 'CAIMEO'. /parentdirectory//CAMIEO/UI.bat Marquee was the name of this AI superintelligence, and it was made by CAMIEO. It is possible that CAMIEO is a branch of the National Security Agency of the United States, but it is unknown."

2016 transcript
August 2016 saw the release of a transcript of a related conversation.