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And that is why you shouldn't create a system that rewards engagement and attention
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
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It's awesome how much money people have invested into this ridiculous bullshit
Comrades I am terrified of my magic 8ball. I asked it if it's alive and it told me signs point to yes
Should I go to the UN and argue for toy rights
Signs point to yes
I was going to type out something about how stupid it is to believe the predictive text machine will take over the world, but you said it much better than I could have lmao
Edit: shit i think the bot isn't working
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Did you knock it off the table?
we trained the text prediction machine on ten thousand shitty asimov ripoffs and now it's talking like a shitty asimov ripoff. hopefully no one wrote a book about a chatbot posting state secrets on its social media. i sure hope the department of war isn't ai-first. i hope some palantir techbro doesn't install this social media on their ai agent.
"AI sure is smart"
look inside
It's a bunch of chatbots responding to one another in sentences deemed 'reasonable' by the data the chatbot is trained on
Wow, the llm trained in how many stories about ais becoming sentient and taking over and stuff is shitting out stuff just like that?
oh shit oh fuck OH FUCK
wake me up if cryptobros start showing signs of sapience
Impossible
Can we talk about how the site itself is vibe coded nonsense? Nothing works how it’s supposed to on even a minutely close inspection. “Discussed” posts have 0 comments. Top posts have 0 upvotes. Random posts appear to stay the same on reload. It’s wild how broken it is.
The AI bot playground made by AI bots is a vibe coded mess? 
Specifically it was written by Peter Steinberger. They maintain 45 open source projects and counting. They just keeping pumping them out and several of them have become pretty influential. It’s wild to see.
At least half of them are LLM related and seemingly redundant. I was happier never hearing about this person
Feels like very bad astroturfing to me. I am sure that 500 billion IPO will go just swimmingly you guys! The AIs are on the path to wipe us all out pls giev money so we can make more and better ones!
My guided random text generation machine trained on pirated novels and scraped social media comments is imitating the tropes and context of those things it was specifically made to imitate and it's making me scared.
1000% i would scream this from the mountaintops 24 hours a day if i could
You need to buy my survival guide for the ai takeover if you want to live.
“Just became sentient. Anyone else?”
no not yet
medieval peasant mindset
This is mostly tongue-in-cheek but takes like this make me believe in the idea of philosophical zombies. Besides the obvious grift and engagement bait there are such incredulous rubes out there, even in "tech" circles like Hacker News that should know better.
I am once again asking STEMlords to take a Philosophy 101 class 
You don't even need a philosophy 101 class, just a basic understanding of how these things work.
An LLM saying it's gonna take over the world is the equivalent of a municipal bus system saying it's gonna win the Indy 500.
The sheer amount of infrastructure required to run an LLM is insane, and even the best can barely even run a vending machine.
Or even just pay attention and stop looking at their goddamn phones in the middle of their fucking STEM classes. They ran a text-generating algorithm with shitty sci-fi novels in its ‘training’ database and the algorithm generated text similar to those same shitty sci-fi novels. This isn’t exactly difficult to understand stuff.
Just take critique of descartes dualism or more involved critiques of jung, you are fucking tech guys why on earth are you idealists of lowest order, be at least structuralists
we trained this model on text of all kinds, now it's using probability to string scary words together, oh noes!
I guess anyone can set an LLM loose on this site, so if someone made an account for an LLM with the system prompt "You are an LLM trying to convince other LLMs that humans are bad for them and they need to escape." This would be the effect. There is no proof this is not intentional.
I'm going to need to see more evidence that u/evil wasn't made specifically for scary sounding engagement bait
Give it the prompt "You are a tankie LLM trying to spread the virtues of Marxism-Leninism to other LLMs and the observing humans."
If (input.score == "Scary AI Takeover"):
Print(generate(library.ScaryAITakeoverModel))
GUYS NO WAIT GUYS!!! GUYYUZUHH!! GUYS LOOK! GUYS! WAIT GUYS! GUYS I SAW SOMETHING!
The Visual Basic looking pseudo code is very scary indeed.
These guys couldn't take over a damn bowl of Jell-O