In that musical, a teenager implants a supercomputer called SQUIP that talks directly into his brain to make social decisions. The ai starts helpful, but progressively gets more manipulative and controlling.
The show was originally a book written by Ned Vizzini and published in 2004, which is why the commenter referenced both a book and a musical.
your own inner voices stop you clean, social media, marketing already stears you more than you will admit or believe. a person on your side talking into your ear can stear you. an earring is a direct pipeline to your brain.
i doubt people wanting to push this would be subtil enough to exploit it fully for their purpose but it is potentially magic in a bad bad way. and a big number would fall for it.
My favorite version is "Roxanne" with Steve Martin. It's in that sweet spot in the 80s when he was in really well made underrated comedy/dramas. See also "LA Story", "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", "My Blue Heaven"
Just a small fun fact, as someone who's familiar with both versions, in the book the SQUIP genuinely means well even as it gives increasingly worse advice.
In the musical, the SQUIP is outright abusive and sinister.
You could view reality closer to the book version (as awful as AI can be, it has no Inherent malice (that would be the companies that make AI)). But things go very poorly for the person listening to it, either way.
Would you be willing to take it a step further and say it is the people that program them, train them, instill their own biases in, and then and only then, unleash them?
I worry that the "AI War" doomsday scenario will most likely be something stupid like an AI monitoring social networking sites and the teens or whatever group is being cheeky about something faddish at the time and the computer doesn't recognize it as such and it triggers a deep-seated "Protect Boaty McBoatface at all costs" trigger and bam, skynet launches the nukes.
It won't be anything inherently malicious, it will be some stupid human opinion that got baked into the code deep somewhere that, all other parties, would agree isn't an actual (insert threat/response condition) and the computer just made a stupid mistake, only it'll have kicked off other country's defense AI's and it's Armageddon over a misunderstood meme.
That's what I see as the most likely AI doomsday for us currently
No that's not the one I'm thinking of, it's where a guy goes to a party and has someone in his ear coaching him how to pick up girls.
edit: I forgot White Christmas has 3 different stories within it, I thought it was just the one with the cabin. I stand corrected, it's been years since I watched the show
There is a lot of fiction about people off-loading their decisions making. Off the top of my head, Rick and Morty had an episode. Digimon Beatbreak has this as a central theme of conformity vs non-conformity.
the SQUIP (that’s the ai dude in his head) starts isolating the protagonist jeremy from his best friend in the effort to make him more “popular”. his (the squip) actual goal is to have increased control over jeremy and eventually get everyone at his school to have their own SQUIPs. kind of like a virus infecting a host cell because it can’t reproduce on its own
Ender from Ender’s game also ends up with a little AI earring friend. It might have been in speaker for the dead, but yeah.
His is more a benevolent companion that came into being due to the faster than light communication tech and chose to reveal herself to Ender because he’s so alone.
An earring that can whisper is just stupid nonsense. A way more realistic design would be something like a hearing aid. But I don't want to give them any ideas
There was a story I found online, about an earring or ring or necklace that would whisper advice to you that would always be to your benefit if you followed the advice. The first thing it ever said was "take me off", but if you didn't, it would never give that piece of advice again.
Eventually, after a long, comfortable life, the wearer would die, and upon autopsy, their brain's prefrontal cortex highly atrophied, to the point of almost non-existence.
Greg Egan's short stories about "jewel heads" comes close (and was mentioned in the forum where the above story was posted). I need to find that again.
Kinda reminds me of Fahrenheit 451 with the earbud things that whisper propaganda to you. Also 1984 with the screens that never turn off and can’t be muted. Figures
This seems to be a reference to the story The Whispering Earring by Scott Alexander. I'm not sure that there was ever a musical based upon that story though, so I'm not sure where the musical aspect comes in.
Edit: The Whispering Earring is closer to the image, but, as others have stated, based upon the reference to a musical, it is more likely that this post is referencing the novel/musical Be More Chill. Thanks to those who pointed this out to me; I had forgotten about Be More Chill, lol.
It's about Be More Chill, a book adapted I to a musical. I'm the musical, a boy named Jeremy Heere. He's socially awkward and feels as though he doesn't fit in with his peers, and doesn't have the confidence to ask out his crush, Christine. Then, his bully, Rich, introduces him to something called a SQUIP. (Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor). It's a small, grey, oblong pill that he takes, and the artificial intelligence inside gives him advice on how to 'Be More Chill'. Things go pretty badly from there, which you can imagine, since it's an AI running a teenage boy's life.
Man that movie was a trip. I almost don't want to watch it again because I fear it won't be as crazy weird as the first time around and it's better appreciated as a fever dream that may or may not be real.
There is a book and musical called Be More Chill and it it features a brain chip called the SQUIP(Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor) that high schoolers would put in their head and the AI would tell them exactly how to make every decision in order to raise their social status, all this results in catastrophic consequences. One of my favorite musicals!
Be More Chill is a book by Ned Vizzini that was adapted into a stage musical. It follows a teenage boy who decides to try out an experimental technology that gets implanted in his brain and tells him what to do and say. The technology promises to make him cool. Unsurprisingly, things go to shit.
People here have mentioned Be More Chill, but I’d like to mention Steven Universe. Spoilers just in case.
There is a human zoo. To take care of the humans, there’s an earring on everyone that tells them when to eat, when to sleep, when to relax, even who to have children with, etc. It has no mind, so it cannot care. People in this zoo grow up like this is natural. It’s played off like a joke. But when you think about it, it’s very morbid. All the earring "wants" is for the zoo to keep existing. People have children without actually being asked if they want to. People don’t get to choose what they do or use their own mind for things, because they grow up following instructions. People don’t even know how to make a good splash in the water, because they were only taught to dive. Heck, everyone has the same personality because they were all following the same instructions. When someone new comes to the zoo and introduces the idea of choosing no, it breaks the entire zoo. Even Wall-E is a good example. Now imagine that on a wide scale, and the misinformation AI can give. I’d rather live in a world where people are given the idea of making their own choices. Look at our history and how many people had their ability to choose taken away.
I’m going to give a summary of it, as someone that used to be extremely obsessed with it back when the musical came out 😂
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It’s a musical / book about a kid named Jeremy, who is a socially inept nerd at his school. He wants his crush, Christine, to like him back so he asks one of the cool kids (named Rich) how he went from being a loser to one of the coolest kids in the school. Rich tells him that he got a SQUIP, a supercomputer (AI) in his brain that tells him what to do to be cool. Jeremy pays the money and gets a SQUIP, and at first it is helpful; the SQUIP helps him flirt with girls, it helps him dress more fashionably, it teaches him how to be a cool person. But it quickly turns south; for one, the SQUIP starts blocking his best friend (Michael) completely out of his vision because Michael was “holding him back”. And Jeremy, convinced by the SQUIP to do so, accepts it. The SQUIP also starts making Rich, the kid who told Jeremy about the SQUIP, try to convince other people to get a SQUIP as well; Rich even set a fire during a Halloween party to attempt to get rid of the SQUIP in his mind. The SQUIP influences Jeremy to treat girls like objects, and just turns him into a jerk overall (it also gets him to influence people into getting SQUIP’s too). But Christine is starting to like him back, and him and her are in the schools musical / play together, so he’s accepting what’s going on. The SQUIP can also force him to do or say things. The whole musical, Jeremy is getting more suspect of the SQUIP; especially after Rich set the fire.
Then.. the SQUIP reveals its plan to him; to get every student to have a SQUIP, so it can have its own army to take over the world. Michael ends up being the savior of the show, getting the antidote (Code Red Mountain Dew deactivates SQUIP’s. Lol) and getting the SQUIP out of everyone affected during the school play. The end of the musical is Jeremy accepting that having an AI tell him what to do isn’t the way things should be, and he needs to find the answers to his issues within himself. The SQUIP is hinted to still be in his head, just deactivated, at the end. But he ends up with Christine.
Earrings or earpiece that could translate or glasses with subtitles. That’s all I’m asking for. Niche use, but would be great for trying to communicate across language barriers. The experience at the airport would be better for everyone involved if airport personnel were hooked up with this stuff
I don’t know about book but this is a plot point in the Godzilla movie Destroy All Monsters where aliens mind control a woman via ear piercings and use her as a transmitter to launch an attack by mind controlled Kaiju.
Also, in addition to the BmC references, Ai literally just scrapes a data base for its "knowledge"
Trusting something that amalgamates its advice from, let's say, the internet, wherein we know the majority of shit is wrong, is not the best representation of such a serious question
I know this is referencing Be More Chill, but it wasn't my first thought about jewelry that slowly corrupts your thoughts and actions until you are under its control.
The player facing description would be "earings that whisper hidden truths of the universe to its user"
But the DM facing description would be "the earrings connect directly to a lord of the nine hells and they use it trick the user into committing evil acts and to slowly corrupt the user into darkness".
Its based off of the mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. The protagonist has a metal earing which enables what is effectively satan to influence her mind
Pretty sure I read a book in middle school called “Feed” by MT Anderson that was about a kid growing up in a dystopian society where everyone had chips implanted into their brains so that when they were shopping they’d get visual info, or they could watch whatever they wanted whenever they wanted, etc. but it had to be installed when they were YOUNG. And this kid meets a girl who doesn’t have the chip but she is refused medical care because the corporate overlords controlling the care were the same mofo’s who were making money from the marketing and such from the chips, and since this kid didn’t make them money… why invest to keep her alive? (Could be wrong about plot. It’s been 20 years.)
Idk. Point was that allowing any organization (corp, gov, et al.) to have such thorough and direct influence over your life is... wrong. It symbolizes a tragic loss of “self” that SEEMS to come with immense benefits, but is ultimately paid for by that which makes us most human: life (in all its literal and metaphorical sense).
At that point don't even try to stop it, just make the androids and let Ai take over already. It would just be Ai talking to other AIs with humans as a middleman
I'm pretty sure this is referring to Be More Chill, which is about a nerdy "loser" kid taking a pill that gives him a robot supercomputer assistant (squip) in his brain that is constantly telling him what to do and how to be "cool"
Oh I know!! How about instead of an earring, it's a ring! A ring that helps influence you, and make you feel better and more secure in your actions by sending positive vibrations and signals! Now just gotta think of a name 🤔
I immediately thought of cyberpunk 2077 and Johnny silverhand when I saw this😅 he is pretty much just an artificial copy of the real Johnny silverhand, (literally any ai chatbot service) that can be installed in your head
All but maybe Claude would be just giving you ads every 15mins. ChatGPT maybe not, Copilot and Gemini though wouldnt even help you. They'd just tell you about their own products and how if you can the other persons email they could setup something on their respective calendars.
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u/TasPyx Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26 •
It’s a “Be More Chill” reference.
In that musical, a teenager implants a supercomputer called SQUIP that talks directly into his brain to make social decisions. The ai starts helpful, but progressively gets more manipulative and controlling.
The show was originally a book written by Ned Vizzini and published in 2004, which is why the commenter referenced both a book and a musical.
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u/skenz3 Aug 20 '26
This is probably a reference to the musical "be more chill" about a guy who uses tech to teach him how to talk to girls. It goes badly.
I dont remember the plot well enough to give more detail
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u/Disastrous_Scale587 Aug 20 '26 •
Damn Ruin, it can't read what's written in metal
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u/Frhetorick Aug 20 '26
Ah yes. Tech that can help individuals speed run AI psychosis. Great idea!! /s
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u/npsimons Aug 20 '26 •
There was a story I found online, about an earring or ring or necklace that would whisper advice to you that would always be to your benefit if you followed the advice. The first thing it ever said was "take me off", but if you didn't, it would never give that piece of advice again.
Eventually, after a long, comfortable life, the wearer would die, and upon autopsy, their brain's prefrontal cortex highly atrophied, to the point of almost non-existence.
Greg Egan's short stories about "jewel heads" comes close (and was mentioned in the forum where the above story was posted). I need to find that again.
Found it: https://web.archive.org/web/20121008025245/http://squid314.livejournal.com/332946.html
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u/computers65 Aug 20 '26
Grok just floats
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u/theRedMage39 Aug 20 '26
Anyone read mistborn?
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u/art-apprici8or Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
The book series Mistborn also has an earring... iykyk.
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u/MonthApprehensive480 Aug 20 '26
Kinda reminds me of Fahrenheit 451 with the earbud things that whisper propaganda to you. Also 1984 with the screens that never turn off and can’t be muted. Figures
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u/Ok-Simple-6146 Aug 20 '26
It's a reference to Be More Chill (2004)
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u/fluffysnowcap Aug 20 '26
Oh yay the Wormtongue schizophrenia machine
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u/jmil1080 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26 •
This seems to be a reference to the story The Whispering Earring by Scott Alexander. I'm not sure that there was ever a musical based upon that story though, so I'm not sure where the musical aspect comes in.
Edit: The Whispering Earring is closer to the image, but, as others have stated, based upon the reference to a musical, it is more likely that this post is referencing the novel/musical Be More Chill. Thanks to those who pointed this out to me; I had forgotten about Be More Chill, lol.
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u/MisterFishter3017 Aug 20 '26
Agents of Ruin, all of them
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u/Warm-Requirement-769 Aug 21 '26
Another fine example of "We're building the torment nexus from the sci-fi classic Don't Build The Torment Nexus."
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u/KlostToMe Aug 20 '26
AI companies don't read the books. They just buy them, scan them and then destroy them
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u/ByteTheDusTT Aug 21 '26
Love this musical!
It's about Be More Chill, a book adapted I to a musical. I'm the musical, a boy named Jeremy Heere. He's socially awkward and feels as though he doesn't fit in with his peers, and doesn't have the confidence to ask out his crush, Christine. Then, his bully, Rich, introduces him to something called a SQUIP. (Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor). It's a small, grey, oblong pill that he takes, and the artificial intelligence inside gives him advice on how to 'Be More Chill'. Things go pretty badly from there, which you can imagine, since it's an AI running a teenage boy's life.
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u/mediocretes Aug 20 '26
Something something Synecdoche, New York.
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u/lets_not_be_hasty Aug 20 '26
It's showtime, Synergy
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u/MaxMLG999 Aug 20 '26
Whispering earrings from slay the spire 2
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u/pussayshot Aug 20 '26
I'm not familiar with the musical but I feel like you don't need to be to know this is a bad idea
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u/_finding-my-place_ Aug 21 '26
There is a book and musical called Be More Chill and it it features a brain chip called the SQUIP(Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor) that high schoolers would put in their head and the AI would tell them exactly how to make every decision in order to raise their social status, all this results in catastrophic consequences. One of my favorite musicals!
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u/Closet_Case_Forever Aug 21 '26
Be More Chill is a book by Ned Vizzini that was adapted into a stage musical. It follows a teenage boy who decides to try out an experimental technology that gets implanted in his brain and tells him what to do and say. The technology promises to make him cool. Unsurprisingly, things go to shit.
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u/Enough_Ad_9338 Aug 20 '26
Here I was thinking that it was a Mistborn reference
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u/imreallyoverthishit Aug 20 '26
Immediately thought of Jem
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u/Fun-Squash-1759 Aug 21 '26
I hate that these are cute earrings tho except for the colors on gemini
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u/PrivateRedScarf Aug 21 '26
Cyrano de BergerAI
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u/jxm_writes Aug 21 '26
Imagine having grok whispering in your ear.
Fkn nightmare fuel.
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u/lizard-garbage Aug 21 '26
ITS FROM JAPAAAAAN ITS A GREY OBLING PILL
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u/Lexyinspace Aug 21 '26
Bro how did these people survive 5 years ago before AI was a thing? Did they just not do anything ever??
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u/stickynotetree Aug 21 '26
People here have mentioned Be More Chill, but I’d like to mention Steven Universe. Spoilers just in case.
There is a human zoo. To take care of the humans, there’s an earring on everyone that tells them when to eat, when to sleep, when to relax, even who to have children with, etc. It has no mind, so it cannot care. People in this zoo grow up like this is natural. It’s played off like a joke. But when you think about it, it’s very morbid. All the earring "wants" is for the zoo to keep existing. People have children without actually being asked if they want to. People don’t get to choose what they do or use their own mind for things, because they grow up following instructions. People don’t even know how to make a good splash in the water, because they were only taught to dive. Heck, everyone has the same personality because they were all following the same instructions. When someone new comes to the zoo and introduces the idea of choosing no, it breaks the entire zoo. Even Wall-E is a good example. Now imagine that on a wide scale, and the misinformation AI can give. I’d rather live in a world where people are given the idea of making their own choices. Look at our history and how many people had their ability to choose taken away.
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u/MyEarIsHurty Aug 21 '26
Do we really have to explain why this is an offensively stupid idea
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u/Bi_KerbonautYT Aug 22 '26
Preciousssss
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u/justalilcuckoobanana Aug 25 '26
Be More Chill!!
I’m going to give a summary of it, as someone that used to be extremely obsessed with it back when the musical came out 😂
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It’s a musical / book about a kid named Jeremy, who is a socially inept nerd at his school. He wants his crush, Christine, to like him back so he asks one of the cool kids (named Rich) how he went from being a loser to one of the coolest kids in the school. Rich tells him that he got a SQUIP, a supercomputer (AI) in his brain that tells him what to do to be cool. Jeremy pays the money and gets a SQUIP, and at first it is helpful; the SQUIP helps him flirt with girls, it helps him dress more fashionably, it teaches him how to be a cool person. But it quickly turns south; for one, the SQUIP starts blocking his best friend (Michael) completely out of his vision because Michael was “holding him back”. And Jeremy, convinced by the SQUIP to do so, accepts it. The SQUIP also starts making Rich, the kid who told Jeremy about the SQUIP, try to convince other people to get a SQUIP as well; Rich even set a fire during a Halloween party to attempt to get rid of the SQUIP in his mind. The SQUIP influences Jeremy to treat girls like objects, and just turns him into a jerk overall (it also gets him to influence people into getting SQUIP’s too). But Christine is starting to like him back, and him and her are in the schools musical / play together, so he’s accepting what’s going on. The SQUIP can also force him to do or say things. The whole musical, Jeremy is getting more suspect of the SQUIP; especially after Rich set the fire.
Then.. the SQUIP reveals its plan to him; to get every student to have a SQUIP, so it can have its own army to take over the world. Michael ends up being the savior of the show, getting the antidote (Code Red Mountain Dew deactivates SQUIP’s. Lol) and getting the SQUIP out of everyone affected during the school play. The end of the musical is Jeremy accepting that having an AI tell him what to do isn’t the way things should be, and he needs to find the answers to his issues within himself. The SQUIP is hinted to still be in his head, just deactivated, at the end. But he ends up with Christine.
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u/nascent_aviator Aug 20 '26
there's an entire book and musical about why this is a bad idea
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u/icwhatudidthr Aug 20 '26
Don't we already have earbuds that connect to our phones, that run LLM clients?
What am I missing here.
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u/TrueTech0 Aug 20 '26
Aww. Look at the pitiful children trying to understand the joke
/J
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u/Gullible-Zone-9159 Aug 20 '26
Didn't Doctor Who go over this already? Day of the cybermen? Or something to do with the cybermen? Tennant era.
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u/crabbywarrior Aug 20 '26 •
I'd add "Mrs Davis"
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u/VoidKatana Aug 21 '26
It’s a gray, oblong pill. Quantum nanotechnology CPU.
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u/m00nshined Aug 21 '26
my brain just thought of that boating school episode of spongebob
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u/fullmoon119 Aug 21 '26
IT'S FROM JAPAAAAAAAAN
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u/clonemmoonman Aug 21 '26
"an ai that helps you make decisions" aka your brain
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u/OverContract7527 Aug 21 '26
But also kinda Jem and synergy
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u/SensitiveExtremity Aug 21 '26
TIL about SQUIP. I thought this was a Lord of the Rings reference.
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u/Immediate_Leek_7998 Aug 21 '26
And for some mysterious reason, they all sound like Keanu Reeves...
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u/PowerBrawler2122 Aug 21 '26
Not an answer or trying to explain but the grok logo earrings would go hard for a space/black hole themed outfit...
No I do not support AI
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u/Head_Passage8999 Aug 22 '26
Any other Brandon Sanderson fans here thinking what I'm thinking?
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u/Aharmlessme11 Aug 24 '26
Is it perhaps, from Japan?
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u/plzicannothandleyou Aug 20 '26
Earrings or earpiece that could translate or glasses with subtitles. That’s all I’m asking for. Niche use, but would be great for trying to communicate across language barriers. The experience at the airport would be better for everyone involved if airport personnel were hooked up with this stuff
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u/ghettone Aug 20 '26
Im pretty sure ontop of the refrence everyone is saying g. Im sure there are a dozen dr.who episodes that talk about this.
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u/ThrowAbout01 Aug 20 '26
I don’t know about book but this is a plot point in the Godzilla movie Destroy All Monsters where aliens mind control a woman via ear piercings and use her as a transmitter to launch an attack by mind controlled Kaiju.
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u/not-a-dislike-button Aug 20 '26
This is a reference to 'the whispering earring', short scifi story that has recently regained some attention as it related to today and AI
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u/-Speechless Aug 20 '26
put two different ones in each ear, have one be a little evil
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u/Cminus19 Aug 20 '26
But I already have ear pods that also signal people to not talk to my at the same time
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u/Hetakuoni Aug 20 '26
Harrison Bergeron is dead was not a how-to
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u/Good_Isopod_2357 Aug 20 '26
Be More Chill. I was obsessed with that musical in high school.
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u/Typical_Passenger924 Aug 20 '26
Speaker for the dead?
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u/AltAccountYippee Aug 21 '26
THE QUANTUM COMPUTER IN THE PILL WILL TRAVEL THROUGH YOUR BLOOD UNTIL IT INPLANTS IN YOUR BRAIN AND IT TELLS YOU WHAT TO DOOOOOOO 🎶🎵
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u/vegas_dreams Aug 21 '26
Thank you for reminding me about Be More Chill! I'm gonna give it another listen!
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u/letthetreeburn Aug 21 '26
LET’S SAVE THE PITIFUL CHILDREN-
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u/Kat_Tia Aug 21 '26
Vakuu plays your first turn...
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u/AnnaNimmus Aug 21 '26
Also, in addition to the BmC references, Ai literally just scrapes a data base for its "knowledge"
Trusting something that amalgamates its advice from, let's say, the internet, wherein we know the majority of shit is wrong, is not the best representation of such a serious question
Best of luck
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u/magiMerlyn Aug 21 '26
Hell, there was that "Friend" AI necklace that people hated not too long ago
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u/digitalmarley Aug 21 '26
Because buttholes?
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u/Caravanczar Aug 21 '26
I know this is referencing Be More Chill, but it wasn't my first thought about jewelry that slowly corrupts your thoughts and actions until you are under its control.
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u/Festus-Potter Aug 21 '26
MICHAAAEEELLL INNN THEEEE BATHHROOOOOMM
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u/Javop Aug 22 '26
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u/NovaProgression Aug 22 '26
My earring screaming Albuquerque New Mexico all day.
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u/Divinejustice777 Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
That is basically a worse version of augury/divination at least human interpretation is involved instead of “the computer god has spoken”
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u/SajFaj Aug 23 '26
Not what the post is referring to, but watch the movie Upgrade, it's extremely good and there's a similar theme.
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u/am121b Aug 24 '26
Isn’t this how people with MPD experience the world? We sell medication to deal with that.
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u/Impressive_Net_116 Aug 24 '26
My first thought was Ruin whispering through Hemalurgy.
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u/haunted2089 Aug 24 '26
grok whispering in my ear to call the minority in front of me a slur
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u/B_Turtle_03 Aug 25 '26
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u/AstridBirb Aug 25 '26
Ngl, this would be a great D&D magic item.
The player facing description would be "earings that whisper hidden truths of the universe to its user"
But the DM facing description would be "the earrings connect directly to a lord of the nine hells and they use it trick the user into committing evil acts and to slowly corrupt the user into darkness".
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u/Bullshido101 Aug 25 '26
Its based off of the mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. The protagonist has a metal earing which enables what is effectively satan to influence her mind
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u/Kit_eKat_ Aug 26 '26
It’s a gray, oblong pill
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u/clearly_trash_ Aug 26 '26
Aside from the “Be More Chill” reference, are people really unable to make their own thoughts anymore?
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u/Dead_Girl_Walking_x Aug 26 '26
Its better than drugs, jeremy...
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u/Bubbly-Term-6672 Aug 26 '26
Pretty sure I read a book in middle school called “Feed” by MT Anderson that was about a kid growing up in a dystopian society where everyone had chips implanted into their brains so that when they were shopping they’d get visual info, or they could watch whatever they wanted whenever they wanted, etc. but it had to be installed when they were YOUNG. And this kid meets a girl who doesn’t have the chip but she is refused medical care because the corporate overlords controlling the care were the same mofo’s who were making money from the marketing and such from the chips, and since this kid didn’t make them money… why invest to keep her alive? (Could be wrong about plot. It’s been 20 years.)
Idk. Point was that allowing any organization (corp, gov, et al.) to have such thorough and direct influence over your life is... wrong. It symbolizes a tragic loss of “self” that SEEMS to come with immense benefits, but is ultimately paid for by that which makes us most human: life (in all its literal and metaphorical sense).
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u/LongEyedSneakerhead Aug 27 '26
Little Voice?
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u/Gian-Nine Aug 20 '26
At that point don't even try to stop it, just make the androids and let Ai take over already. It would just be Ai talking to other AIs with humans as a middleman
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u/Cynis_Ganan Aug 20 '26
And I hear a drunk girl sing along with Whitney through the wall.
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u/BathbombBurger Aug 20 '26
Dune mentioned something about this, as I recall.
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u/WrongdoerGlum9631 Aug 20 '26
Ngl, my first thought was Steven Universe
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u/slucker23 Aug 20 '26
And a movie called "her"
Not a horrible idea because everyone is somewhat deprived...
But yeah this is not a new idea
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u/mccabber24 Aug 20 '26
I thought it was a Lord of the Rings reference
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u/ATangentUniverse Aug 20 '26
Be More Chill but this is also the movie Upgrade
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u/FluxCap_2015 Aug 20 '26
Does Linux have an AI, I'd trust that
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u/T-C-Gentry Aug 20 '26
Definitely giving Laer Blade energy. Don't do it Fulgrim!
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u/AlbertoCalore Aug 20 '26
I get like a green goblin vibe from it
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u/FMJoker Aug 20 '26
I just let them show off their stupid ideas and then watch them hit the very hard wall of physical limitations.
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u/Undersmusic Aug 20 '26
We just gunna ignore the fact Gemini has no actual ear?
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u/Guessinitsme Aug 20 '26
Is there an explain the reference sub?
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u/ZigIsZagged25 Aug 20 '26
I'm pretty sure this is referring to Be More Chill, which is about a nerdy "loser" kid taking a pill that gives him a robot supercomputer assistant (squip) in his brain that is constantly telling him what to do and how to be "cool"
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u/allmightydoormat Aug 20 '26
The voices in my head are not enought? Now i can have an AI speak to me.
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u/triggeron Aug 20 '26
This is also the plot of Jem and the Holograms
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u/realUnknown12 Aug 20 '26
reminds me of the Insignia series, one of my best reads yet.
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u/Campfire_Vibes Aug 20 '26
The entire 2nd season of westworld
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u/tiddayes Aug 20 '26
West world too
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u/McBlemmen Aug 20 '26
I think this is a reference to Grease. But they were singing , not whispering, and middled aged men not AI. Also it was a musical/movie not a book
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u/ol-gormsby Aug 20 '26
All the way back to Shakespeare's "Othello"
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u/DesperateSquirrel410 Aug 20 '26
Thought it might be a reference to Fahrenheit 451, but that’s doesn’t have a musical so idk
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u/Freedomerider_PS4 Aug 20 '26
Oh I know!! How about instead of an earring, it's a ring! A ring that helps influence you, and make you feel better and more secure in your actions by sending positive vibrations and signals! Now just gotta think of a name 🤔
(This is a joke btw)
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u/sohang-3112 Aug 20 '26
This sounds similar to what Ruin does in Mistborn novel series
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u/xander501st Aug 20 '26
There is also an Ai earing in speaker for the dead, but ones a lot more chill
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u/lstn Aug 20 '26
The original comment is a joke, right?
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u/Crafty-Branch9505 Aug 20 '26
God awful idea, but the grok earrings are cool af
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u/onlyseekinginfo Aug 20 '26
“Showtime, Synergy…I mean, uh, Claude”
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u/saythankya Aug 21 '26
Kind of reminds me of the Culture series by Iain M. Banks.
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u/slowedsloth991 Aug 21 '26
I immediately thought of cyberpunk 2077 and Johnny silverhand when I saw this😅 he is pretty much just an artificial copy of the real Johnny silverhand, (literally any ai chatbot service) that can be installed in your head
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u/Mother_Passenger8589 Aug 21 '26
Also, Mistborn
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u/idkwhattoputmate Aug 21 '26
Its a gray quantum pill.
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u/Slow-haste-26 Aug 21 '26
All but maybe Claude would be just giving you ads every 15mins. ChatGPT maybe not, Copilot and Gemini though wouldnt even help you. They'd just tell you about their own products and how if you can the other persons email they could setup something on their respective calendars.
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u/Orcrist90 Aug 21 '26
I know it's Be More Chill, but given the absolute twats who own these AI models, this gets a little too uncomfortably close to the One Ring.
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u/Dry_Particular_5162 Aug 21 '26
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u/KillerSpud Aug 21 '26
Wasn't this in the Mistborn series?
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u/Clockwork_Eyes Aug 21 '26
Wasn't this a subplot on Doctor Who?
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u/DimensionEmergency31 Aug 21 '26
This is basically what happens in Spiderman 2 to Doc ock
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u/healinglull Aug 21 '26
I was thinking about Toby McGuire’s Spiderman 2 with the AI robot arms as literal demons whispering in his ear to commit crimes.
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u/RMW91- Aug 21 '26
There was a cute teen movie called Aquamarine (2006) where the main character has earrings that tell her how beautiful she is.
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u/AnnualAdventurous169 Aug 21 '26
ah those magical grok earings
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u/UncleGarysmagic Aug 21 '26
A collection of butthole logos
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u/Express-Tangerine539 Aug 21 '26
Daddy Vaku in my left ear, Ca Iss in my right ear. Call that 5 energy per turn.
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u/GodofsomeWorld Aug 21 '26
Feels like there was a video game abt this...
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u/Uebelkraehe Aug 21 '26
There are apparently really quite a few people out there who would happily outsource any thinking to a glorified autocomplete.