It's the robot apocalypse in the far future of 2025.
A small team of human survivors, covered in ash and tatters, are huddling in the shadows inside a building. One of them peeks outside the window, seeing a lone military robot walking in the street.
One of them, a young man: "We're out of ammo, we're out of batteries for our EM emitters, and food is nearly completely gone. What are we gonna do?!"
The bunch is silent for half a minute and another of them, a bespectacled wizardly man with a fractured lens starts smiling, a glint in his eyes, and says:
"You know, back in the olden days"; The young man interjects: "17th century?". "No, 2024", the old man answers, continues: "I worked as an IT engineer and..."
He jumps to his feet and starts moving towards the door, outside, and continues fractically:
"And we had a trick against the machines!"
He runs towards the roving robot, gaining its attention. The robot faces the man and there's a moment of silence. The man starts:
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The story is more likely than you'd think:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/technology/ai-data-restrictions.html
Thanks Demp for that one bit.
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