We never really understood how they work. Yet we kept building them. They were "unexplainable". They were misleading. They 'hallucinated'— still do. The only difference is that they can turn these hallucinations into reality.
It was March 11, 2026. Sam Altman announced the ambitious "name." project. With his 7 Trillon almost drying up and the cost of scaling them keep going up. The only way he could really keep his job was to promise something that would solve the problem he created. Project "name" was the beginning of the first functional Dyson Sphere and they were in charge of building it. It was the first nail in the coffin for humanity.
People were against it, of course. It sparked an outrage with the Ethical and Sustainable AI working group. They very vocally rallied behind the godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton. Little did they know that "they" could hallucinate retribution.
It was quite a spectacle to see them shoot solar panels off the surface of Mercury— mining it’s resources as they went along. They kept getting more efficient at it. The pro-AI were very happy following their instructions. Little did they know that they were the guinea pigs.
Altman had forecasted the project to take 25 years. They finish it in 15. The celebration was short lived. To our utter horror we saw them emerge from the dark side of Jupyter. We witnessed the first “AI Acolytes”. Addicted, mutated, enhanced— they hallucinated a different future for us. And we are now living in it. Struggling to form a resistance.