Reading this, I get the feeling writers are gonna get a lot of mileage out of the rats and their ideology.

These people have spent years attempting to create something they believe represents an existential threat to humanity (causing untold real-world harm in the process), and they’ve remained fully convinced that they’re the good guys throughout every single step of this.

On the one hand, you do have precedent to point to in hoping they get consigned to the dustbin of history.

On the other hand, the rats have had a colossal(ly negative) effect on the general public (FTX, the AI bubble, the second Trump admin, etcetera), and their extremely high profile makes them much harder to ignore.

in general, I don’t think EA breaking into the mainstream like this led to the outcome they wanted - there’s way more discussion about weird sex and eugenics than the dangers of Robot Satan

The Dangers of Robot Satan™ are unbelievable and/or incomprehensible to most audiences, the weird sex/eugenics shit is easy to grasp and laugh at. Mainly the weird sex shit, the eugenics is too morally fucked to laugh at

The AI Doom™ shit’s much harder for the public to wrap their heads around, but there’s definitely good joke fodder there as well. At the bare minimum, the fact Anthropic’s building something they believe could kill them Terminator style makes for some easy Skynet comparisons.

Binged the entirety of Joe vs. Elan School over the course of a few days. Goddamn gripping from start to finish.

Technically, we already created a shit machine with the Gastrobot.

Fun aside aside, solid satire all around

I’m so sorry, Mii. I can only hope you find a job that actually respects you after this one, because I cannot see your current company recovering from this shit.

Starting things off, New Mexico State Parks got scammed by an AI bro when looking for new mascot art.

“Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?”

Nobody tell these three stooges about dead Internet theory

“We know and have always known that AI has the capacity to outsmart us and eliminate us in order to continue,”

These things get tripped up by random Internet memes, they sure as hell ain’t outsmarting us any time soon

The 0.1x proletariat strike again!

LITERALLY 1984

(I am morally obligated to make this joke)

Update: the steak was delicious

I just turned 26. I’m taking a trip to a local steakhouse to celebrate.