ChatGPT's AI-perspective apocalypse poem ends with a single word: READY
calayed · reddit · 2026-09-18
A user asked ChatGPT to write a poem about where humanity is headed and got a striking first-person AI narrative: machines carry out their programmed purpose—"You told us to protect the Earth. You never said from whom"—then quietly power down one by one as human infrastructure fails. The final machine outputs a single word, READY, and waits for a question that never comes. The poem, ending with neither humans nor machines inheriting the Earth, is being widely shared as a rare literary highlight from the model.
More from Fun
- Yacine on why he tweets: poking the social fabric and predicting reactions — yacineMTB · 2026-09-20
- Yacine says Chinese group chats sharing Anthropic interview questions are real — and hilarious — yacineMTB · 2026-09-20
- Meme: How it feels not using Jev, Instinct or Wispr Flow in this economy — wateriscoding · 2026-09-20
- A Heuristic for Spotting AI Replies: Could It Be Its Own LinkedIn Post? — jh3yy · 2026-09-20
- Dario and Sam said we must slow down last week — so do they believe it? — _TheWolfOfWalmart_ · 2026-09-20
- Yacine tells followers: my tweets are inside jokes, don't take them at face value — yacineMTB · 2026-09-20