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.
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