ChatGPT renders 'spikes bursting through grid' from long-term nuclear waste warning design
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-09-04
ciphergoth shares a ChatGPT-generated render of "Spikes Bursting Through Grid," riffing on the Wikipedia entry for long-term nuclear waste warning messages. The field of nuclear semiotics — formalized by a 1981 US task force and a 1993 Sandia National Laboratories report — explores non-linguistic ways to deter human intrusion at waste repositories for 10,000+ years, using foreboding physical features and pictograms.
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