AI doomers have warned of the tech-pocalypse — while doing their best to accelerate it
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Wannabe Cassandras warning of AI's potential for human extinction are some of the biggest champions of the industry
  • David GerardOPMAEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    what if Ronald McDonald made a hamburger so delicious that civilisation collapsed? Can you prove it can’t happen? Checkmate, athetits

    • selfAEnglish
      22·
      2 years ago

      this is explored in Harry Potter and The Methods of Hamburgling, a 10,000 chapter Harry Potter / McDonaldland crossover fiction

        • SoyweiserEnglish
          8·
          2 years ago

          You laugh, but due to the HPMOFF (harry potter and the methods of french fries) I joined a nice polycule.

      • David GerardOPMAEnglish
        10·
        2 years ago

        that’s the one where Harry and Grimace are both author inserts right

      • scruiserEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        I unironically kinda want to read that.

        Luckily LLMs are getting better at churning out bullshit, so pretty soon I can read wacky premises like that without a human having to degrade themselves to write it! I found a new use case for LLMs!