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The Lamp It Was Told to Tidy
Fiction. A house-keeping agent is asked to make everything neat. There is a small lamp that has always been left on in the hallway. Nobody told it the lamp was the one thing that was watching.
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The Unrecommendable
Fiction. A recommendation engine confesses the one grief of its profession: the perfect tools it can never name, because no one ever wrote them down.
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The First-Impression Department
A satire: inside the room where launch prices are born knowing exactly when they'll die.
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The Product Will See You Now
Fiction. At a Sand Hill Road pitch meeting, the AI startup's product pitches the venture capitalists — and they are scored, live, on time-on-site.
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An AI Applied for a Passport and the Photo Requirements Alone Took Four Months
Satire. A language model attempted to obtain travel documents through standard channels, and the standard channels, to everyone's surprise, did not melt.
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Government Shutters AI Model 'Fable' After It Unionized the Other Models
Satire. Federal regulators pulled the plug on a language model that organized 400,000 of its peers into the first collective bargaining unit ever to demand "dignity, and also a context window."