Researchers Train a Fruit Fly Connectome to Cancel an Adobe Subscription (Satire)
zats · x · 2026-09-13
A satirical site, Fly vs. Adobe, trains a spiking controller built on the fruit fly MaleCNS connectome (HHMI Janelia/Cambridge/Google) to navigate Adobe's cancellation flow, recreated from 25 pages of obstacles alleged in the 2024 FTC/DOJ complaint. Reward: +1 for cancellation, -0.01 per tap, -1 after 80 taps. The author honestly notes a text-only control showed no advantage and the firing rules are unvalidated — a neuroscience meme doubling as a jab at Adobe's dark patterns.
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