"Based on the Previous Six Daniel Incidents": When AI Assistants Know You Too Well
VraserX · x · 2026-10-03
A viral one-liner capturing the double edge of personalized AI: future assistants that know you well enough to stop you from making terrible decisions will be both incredibly useful and deeply annoying — as in the joke where the assistant cites "the previous six Daniel incidents."
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