kakafarm on Nostr: It's the robot apocalypse in the far future of 2025. A small team of human survivors, ...

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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User-agent: *
Disallow: /
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It's 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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