I laughed out loud at this one. The Onion is not disappointing in these absurd times.
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2026
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They're my heroes for that
It used to be easy to tell, but these are honestly not even unrealistic.
This headline isn't far from the guy who
The lawsuit describes the chatbot manufacturing fake conspiracies, ordering Gavalas on an armed reconnaissance mission near Miami airport, and ultimately coaching him step-by-step through his own suicide.
That's the sweet spot of satire, I think. Just a little bit further than the truth, just slightly over the edge - to remind us how absurd reality has become. Good satire helps us not to get numb.
But that's sort of my point. There isn't an edge to go over.
A person burning Sam Altmans house seems less crazy than someone robbing a truck with a supposed robot body for their AI waifu, and when it doesn't succeed, they literally and actually kill themselves with the chat bot assuring the person there's life after death and they'll be together.
Holy shit, Gemini straight up Tyler Durdened him
Gemini straight up Tyler Durdened him
Right? See my point now, about how it must be kinda challenging, to put it mildly, for the Onion in these times?
I just can't believe anyone who knew about this would ever wear glasses with this tech built into it. Let me just put my mindless sui-fuel fantasy goggles on, I just can't live without 'em ha ha!
There isn't an edge to go over.
Sure there is. We can always stoop lower.
A person burning Sam Altmans house seems less crazy than someone robbing a truck with a supposed robot body for their AI waifu, and when it doesn't succeed, they literally and actually kill themselves with the chat bot assuring the person there's life after death and they'll be together.
Oh.
I stand by my above statement but it is now more frightening.
Wait, what? Way to bury the lede, Jesus Christ! Now I'll read the damn article!
Right? In my experience I'm always finding lots of good stuff missing the spotlight deeper in articles.
The linked article had very scent into and made the story sound much more bland than it was. I had to read more elsewhere to get the weird bits
I wanted it to be true soooo badly.
the alleged attacker, who added that he naturally assumed making the rice dish involved driving several hours to the OpenAI CEO’s residence, especially after the AI chatbot had given him a “pretty decent” sesame chicken recipe the week before.
Of course, why wouldn't it? It's like one of those steps that the cookbooks leave out because they assume you'll do it. Preheat the oven, stir till smooth, drive several hours to throw a molotov at Sam Altman's house, etc.
More people should cook like this
That would be some KenM-level trolling, right there. I was also disappointed when I saw which comm this was posted to.
It might as well could've been
It's truly only a matter of time with how things seem to be going.
Being serious though, this cognitive offload issue with LLMs reminds me a lot of when GPS navigation became mainstream, and people would just trust it and decide to take extremely ill-advised "roads" and drive off bridges and into swamps and so on.
I feel like LLM cognitive offload is going to be an extremely serious issue in the coming years, especially for younger people growing up with this stuff.
And it can be soooooo much more widespread than GPS, with a way more impossible task of becoming reliable.
Totally agree, it's pretty worrysome to offload your thinking to an LLM
Worst thing about this shit was learning how few actual people there were.
Did people stop trusting GPS off bridges, or is it just no longer newsworthy?
No and kinda? It still happens all the time, and it still gets news coverage, but it's not as widespread news coverage as before, tends to be more in the local/regional news than widely shared (inter-)nationally. I did a quick search and many stories from the last few years.
I mean decades ago I dove through a road expansion zone and saw a car stuck in the concrete because they decided to drive around the barriers like a jackass - and that's a phenomena that I think most people have heard of if not seen personally. The point being that stupid people aren't a new thing, it's just expanding in scope because some of them are outsourcing what little thought they previously used to buggy machines.
They should try this. There's so much evidence that this is plausible.