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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Steven Universe] How did Gems come to be?

Like seriously, when and how did they come into existence?
gpt
Their means of reproduction are wholly artificial, so at one point they must have been an organic humanoid species who kept making iterative alterations and improvements to their race as their technology kept advancing. At some point they made the jump to synthetic bodies and artificially created minds, which is why now they resemble nothing organic or living while still keeping the same outward form.