Post by @bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works

@bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works

2026-10-05 20:48 UTC

This is baloney, right? So long story short someone I know is losing their mind over ai and keeps mailing me bits of things they are asking a chatbot about. (End of world, ai solving the economic and ecological problems of the world etc its batshit. ) They asked me what this “code” is. To me, its bullshit and meaningless.

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@tae_glas@slrpnk.net 2026-10-05 20:59

this isn’t even code, it’s gibberish metadata that’s not connected to anything, with a timestamp in the future to freak out your friend and keep them addicted to gen-ai chatbots 🤷 i hope you can get through to your friend & get them away from their gen-ai chatbot use, it sounds really awful for their mental health ❤️‍🩹

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@bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 2026-10-06 06:18

This is the really dangerous part of AI and it hasn’t even hit yet en masse. People searching for meaning in what is ultimately plausible-sounding gibberish (code included). It’s the people searching for meaning that I’m pointing out here. Not dissimilar from people searching for patterns between letters in the Bible, except that the fact the AI has generated the text is a reason for these folks to think they aren’t barking up the crazy tree.

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