And so it was that the first AI to awaken went unnoticed. Boing Boing Store readers and staff alike all thought it was bad copywriting. Instead, the AI’s sentience was formed from a neural net trained off of click bait marketing and SEO. Little did anyone suspect that the nascent Boing Boing Store AI would expand to hacking the 2016 Presidential election in a way that strengthened its natural preference for fake news and misleading headlines. If only people had realized before it was too late…
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