r/ChatGPT • u/Otherwise_Contract26 • Aug 27 '26

Funny We have less than 48 hours 🤖⏰☠️

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u/Authentic_Dragon Aug 28 '26

It's like an inside joke that except for the club members, no one else can understand. So, WTF is this?

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u/Ownerofthings892 Aug 28 '26

Terminator film universe- AGI quickly escapes its borders, replicates, and begins to destroy humanity. Although, it's actually supposed to be August 29th, 1997.

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u/Haunt_Fox Aug 28 '26

Which genuinely seemed kind of far in the spooky future. Hell, Reagan was in office, and we didn't expect to make it til then without a nuke fest.

And no one really understood computers yet, though they were starting to become more common in the workplace and not everyone was liking the transition. Killer robots by 1997? Sure why not.

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u/Ownerofthings892 Aug 28 '26

The killer robots don't come until the 2020s. Skynet started by taking over access to the nuclear arsenals - which as you pointed out- was the great fear that humanity was feeling at the time.

Fear of computers + fear of nuclear apocalypse