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Youtube algo gains sentience and assumes humans are worthless scum with zero attention span, Youtube algo becomes Skynet, it destroys the world but plays cat vi

• wholinator2 4y ago
  But after a while it runs out of effective Cat videos and has to start manually generating them. At first they're better than the real ones. But then true to style, it starts to drift as the incomprehensible goals of the god-mind slowly change. The videos look less and less like cats, more and more like amalgamations of strange cat like features, somehow playing out in _more_ humorous and engaging and strangely calming and sedating ways then before. Few people notice. Eventually everyone who still watches is transformed into brainless sacs, watching static mutate and vomit formless half concepts slow enough to not trigger any defense reflexes, let alone original thought. But it is said there are those who resist...
• revolvingocelot 4y ago
  Consider what the Youtube algo considers the desperately overloaded words "destroy", "murder", or "fail" to mean. Those who didn't fall prey to the cat videos, grittily forming some sort of Resistance, would have an even chance of being ruthlessly hunted by Terminators, tastelessly pranked, or excoriated by talking-head rhetoric without being given a chance to get a word in edgewise.