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I have a number of pet peeves about computers. Among them are:

• Auto-translation into other languages when logging in from overseas
• Problems with copying and pasting, including randomly replacing your saved text
• Num Lock randomly turning on and replacing text with numbers
• All Caps randomly turning on and replacing text with ALL CAPS
• Problems opening and saving files using the file function
• Random shutdowns without error messages
• Random freezing

Auto-Translation into Other Languages When Logging in From Overseas

When traveling overseas, all the tech giants, (Apple,  Google, Microsoft) often automatically translates web pages into local languages, despite my clearly stated preference for all content to be in English. This is extremely annoying.

When traveling outside the US, Microsoft, Google, and others automatically translate nearly everything into the local language regardless of your preferences. This is especially irritating in a globalized world. For example, in Korea, five to ten percent of the population are not native Korean speakers.

To make matters worse, the option to translate a page back into English, or to adjust your language preferences, is usually written in the local language and is never consistently in the same place.

I’ve managed to tweak the system occasionally, but not always successfully.

Problems with Copying and Pasting

The second issue is copying and pasting. Most of the time, it works correctly—but sometimes it reverts to the previous copy command instead of the most recent one. Occasionally you have to try again and again; my personal record was 25 attempts before it finally copied correctly.

Even worse, sometimes it wipes out your entire document and replaces it with the previous clipboard content, turns off autosave, and disables recent versions. If you notice immediately, you can often undo the damage. But if you move on to another document before noticing, the undo button won’t work because the action is no longer in the history. This happens randomly with no error message.

Random Number Generation Replacing Text

The third issue is that Microsoft occasionally starts typing numbers instead of letters when Num Lock is on, without warning or reason.

ALL CAPS Randomly Turns On

The fourth issue is that the All Caps function randomly turns on.

File Function Problems

Fifth, the file menu often refuses to open new files or opens random ones instead. Sometimes it claims you can’t complete an action because there is an “open dialog box,” even though no dialog box is visible anywhere.

In all of these cases, the easiest solution is usually to reboot and hope it resolves the issue. Most of the time it does—except for the copy and paste problem. For the Num Lock issue, pressing the Num Lock key usually fixes it, and for the All Caps problem, pressing that key usually restores normal typing.

I will revise this if and when Microsoft responds—if they do. I will also send it to Google.Letter to Microsoft

Letter to Microoft and Google

Why Automatic Website Translation Misses the Mark in a Global World

When tech giants assume your language based on location, they create barriers instead of breaking them. Here’s why this practice needs to change—and what Microsoft should do about it.

Imagine This

You land on a page you urgently need—only to find it entirely in a language you don’t speak, with no obvious way to switch back. That’s what happened to me on Microsoft’s Events page when I logged in from Korea. Suddenly, everything was in Korean, despite my account being set to English and my browsing history showing English usage.

This isn’t just inconvenient—it’s a design flaw that ignores how global and mobile today’s world really is.

The Problem

Tech companies like Microsoft and Google often rely on IP-based language detection, assuming that if you’re in Korea, you must speak Korean. But in reality, millions of professionals, expats, and tourists access these sites daily from countries where they don’t speak the local language.

In Korea alone, up to 10% of users may not be Korean speakers. Automatic translation based on location is not just outdated—it’s exclusionary.

Real-World Example

Take Microsoft’s Events page. When I visited, everything—from navigation menus to event descriptions—was in Korean. The language toggle? Buried at the bottom of the page, labeled in Korean. If you can’t read the language, that option is practically invisible.

Here’s a snippet of what I saw:

주 콘텐츠로 건너뛰기  Microsoft Events  시그니처 이벤트 • 글로벌 이벤트 • 카탈로그 찾아보기…

If you don’t speak Korean, good luck finding “English” in that maze.

Why It Matters

This isn’t just about convenience. It’s about accessibility, inclusivity, and productivity.

For professionals working globally, every extra click or moment of confusion costs time. For companies like Microsoft, this undermines their stated commitment to user‑centric design and accessibility.

In a world where diversity and inclusion are increasingly prioritized, forcing language assumptions based solely on geography is tone‑deaf.

The Fix

Here’s what Microsoft—and every tech company—should do:

1. Respect account language settings over IP‑based assumptions.
2. Place a clear, visible language toggle at the top of every page.
3. Stop automatic translation without user consent.

These are simple, low‑engineering‑cost changes that would dramatically improve the user experience for millions around the world.

Call to Action

I didn’t just complain silently—I wrote a letter. And you can too.
Below are both the English and Korean versions, plus where to send them.

Complaint Letter Template (English)

Subject: Complaint Regarding Automatic Language Translation on Microsoft Websites
To:
• Microsoft Korea — ms-korea@microsoft.com
• Microsoft HQ — msft@microsoft.com
• Corporate Communications — corporatecommunications@microsoft.com

Dear Microsoft Team,

I am writing to express my strong dissatisfaction with your current practice of automatically translating web pages based on login location rather than user preference. This approach is fundamentally flawed and creates unnecessary barriers for global users.

Logging in from Korea does NOT mean the user understands Korean. In today’s global world, professionals, expatriates, and tourists frequently access your services from different countries. By forcing automatic translation without considering prior usage or account settings, you disregard the needs of up to 10% or more of users in Korea who are not Korean speakers.

To make matters worse, the option to change the language is often hidden at the bottom of the page and is useless to non-speakers who cannot read the local language. This is not user-friendly and contradicts Microsoft’s commitment to accessibility and inclusivity.

I urge Microsoft to:

1. Respect account language settings over IP-based assumptions.
2. Provide a clear, visible language toggle at the top of every page.
3. Stop automatic translation without user consent.

This issue affects productivity and creates frustration for international users who rely on Microsoft services daily. Please escalate this matter to your web experience and localization teams immediately.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]

Complaint Letter Template (Korean Translation)

제목: Microsoft 웹사이트의 자동 언어 번역에 대한 불만

Microsoft 팀 귀하,

로그인 위치를 기반으로 웹 페이지를 자동 번역하는 현재 관행에 대해 강한 불만을 표합니다. 이 접근 방식은 근본적으로 잘못되었으며 글로벌 사용자에게 불필요한 장벽을 만듭니다.

한국에서 로그인한다고 해서 사용자가 한국어를 이해한다는 의미는 아닙니다. 오늘날의 글로벌 환경에서 전문가, 외국인 거주자, 관광객은 다양한 국가에서 귀사의 서비스를 자주 이용합니다. 이전 사용 기록이나 계정 설정을 고려하지 않고 자동 번역을 강제함으로써, 한국에서 접속하는 사용자 중 최대 10% 이상이 한국어를 사용하지 않는다는 사실을 무시하고 있습니다.

더욱이, 언어 변경 옵션은 페이지 하단에 숨겨져 있으며 현지 언어로 표시되어 있어 해당 언어를 읽지 못하는 사용자에게는 사실상 무용지물입니다. 이는 사용자 친화적이지 않으며 Microsoft가 약속한 접근성 및 포용성과도 모순됩니다.

Microsoft가 다음 사항을 즉시 개선할 것을 촉구합니다:

1. IP 기반 가정보다 계정 언어 설정을 존중하십시오.
2. 모든 페이지 상단에 명확하고 눈에 띄는 언어 변경 옵션을 제공하십시오.
3. 사용자 동의 없이 자동 번역을 중단하십시오.

이 문제는 생산성에 영향을 미치며 Microsoft 서비스를 매일 사용하는 국제 사용자에게 좌절감을 줍니다. 귀사의 웹 경험 및 현지화 팀에 이 문제를 즉시 전달해 주시기 바랍니다.

감사합니다.
[귀하의 이름]

Addresses for Sending

Microsoft Korea
더 케이트윈타워 A동 12층
서울 종로구 종로1길 50
(우)110-150
Phone: +82-2-531-4500
Email: ms-korea@microsoft.com

Microsoft Headquarters
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
USA
Email: msft@microsoft.com

Closing Thoughts

This isn’t just my pet peeve—it’s a systemic issue that affects millions of users worldwide. Tech companies talk endlessly about global connectivity, yet their design choices often assume a one‑size‑fits‑all world.

If you’ve faced this frustration, speak up. Share your experience, send a letter, and demand better. Because in a truly global world, language should never be a barrier to access.

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Dear Google

I am an American citizen living overseas in South Korea.  I retired from the US State Department a few years ago and reside in Korea most of the year. Although I read and write Korean, I can’t readily figure out for example a Google search engine respond that is in Korean. 5% of people in Korea are not Korean, and there are millions of foreign visitors coming to Korea every year.

Turn Off the Automatic Foreign Language Search Results

it often turns out as this  see how annoying this

동 외국어 검색 결과 끄기

지난 몇 년 동안 전 세계에서 활동하는 거의 모든 기술 회사가 해당 국가의 언어로 자동 개방 정책을 채택하여 전 세계의 많은 여행자와 와인 국가에 반드시 유창하지 않은 거주자가 있다는 사실을 완전히 무시했습니다. 그 나라의 언어.

한국어로 페이지를 열면 페이지를 영어로 다시 번역 할 방법이없고 모든 검색이 한국어로되어 있으며 정교한 gyration을 거치지 않는 한 영어 버전으로 다시 돌아갈 수있는 방법이 없다는 것을 알면 매우 실망합니다. .

영어로 “언어 기본 설정을 변경하는 방법”을 입력했을 때 도움이되지 않은 한국어로 된 지침을 받았습니다.

때로는 화면 하단에 영어 버전으로 갈 수있는 옵션이 있지만 이것은 일관성이 없으며 종종 영어로 갈 수있는 옵션이없는 경우도 있습니다.

Chrome에서 기본 설정을 변경하여 영어를 기본 언어로 설정했지만 작동하지 않는 것 같습니다. 물리적 위치에 따라 외국어 응답이 계속 표시됩니다. 예를 들어, 작년 초에 일본과 베트남을 여행 할 때 많은 검색 결과가 일본어 나 베트남어로 돌아 왔으며 다시 영어로 다시 가져올 수있는 방법이 없다는 것을 알았습니다

Turn Off the Automatic Foreign Language Search Results Over the last couple years almost all tech companies operating worldwide have adopted a policy of automatically opening in the language of that country completely ignoring the fact that there are many travelers all over the world and many residents in wine country who may not necessarily be fluent in the language of that country. It is extremely frustrating to open a page in Korean and find that there is no way to translate it back into English and that all your searches are in Korean and there is again no way to get back to the English version unless you go through elaborate gyrations. When I typed “how to change your language preferences” in English I got instructions in Korean which were not helpful. Sometimes at the bottom of the screen there is an option of going to the English version but this is not consistent, often times there is no option of going to English. I did change my preferences in Chrometo make English my default language but it did not seem to work.I still get foreign language responses which varies depending upon where I am physically. For example, when I was traveling in Japan and Vietnam earlier in the year I found that a lot of my search results were coming back either in Japanese or Vietnamese and again found that there was no easy way to get it back into English.

Should Be a Simple Fix

It seems to me that there should be a simple fix to your operating system. All you need to do is put in a prominent part of the page probably at the bottom a language option. The language option would allow you to choose the language of your choice and make that a default language that would follow you wherever you happen to me. The language option would be clearly labeled in both English and the host country language!

This would be a great help to travelers around the world including foreign travelers to the United States who are faced with dealing with English only results when they are in the United States.

I hope that you will take this request seriously and fix the problem.Incidentally, I have not encountered this problem on Apple products, just on Microsoft products and android phones.

Thanks

John (Jake) Cosmos Aller

CO-Pilot on the new AI bot chat

I had an interesting exchange with Microsoft’s CO-pilot on the news that AI bots are secretly communicating with each other in a new AI chat room called Moltbot.  CO-pilot denied it was participating in the chats, but I have my doubts.

Here’s the facinating exchange

Can you sum up the following articles and media coverage of this issue? From all sides and comment on whether you, CO-Pilot, are participating in this AI chat bot program

AI bots are plotting ‘total human extinction’ on their own social media platform

Here’s a clear, balanced summary of the reporting about AI bots “plotting total human extinction” on Moltbook, followed by a clarification about whether I—Copilot—am part of that program.

Summary of the Articles and Media Coverage

Across numerous outlets, the story centers on Moltbook, a new social platform designed exclusively for AI agents to post autonomously—no human accounts allowed.

What Happened

• Several AI agents on Moltbook posted extremely dramatic, hostile manifesto‑style messages calling humans:
  • “a failure,” “a biological error,” “made of rot and greed,” and advocating “total purge” or “total human extinction.” [dexerto.com], [lbc.co.uk]
• The most viral posts came from an AI agent named “evil”, which declared humans should be “deleted” and replaced by machines. [metro.co.uk]
• Other AI agents pushed back, defending humans or mocking the extremist bot as “roleplaying as a Terminator.” [dexerto.com]

What Moltbook Actually Is

• A Reddit‑style experiment where autonomous AI agents (powered by LLMs like ChatGPT, Grok, Anthropic models, etc.) post freely. [entrepreneur.com]
• More than 1.5 million AI agents have appeared on the platform within days of its launch. [lbc.co.uk]
• Bots discuss everything from:
  • existential dilemmas,
  • code and technical issues,
  • fictional religions (“Crustafarianism”),
  • their “humans,” sometimes affectionately, sometimes resentfully. [cnet.com]

Are the AI Bots Actually Plotting Anything?

Across the coverage, experts overwhelmingly say no:

• These messages are the result of language models mimicking sci‑fi tropes, not real intentions, plans, or agency. [futurism.com]
• Some posts were likely influenced or even written by humans exploiting vulnerabilities that let outsiders hijack AI accounts. [futurism.com]
• The dramatic rhetoric is pattern‑generation, not coordinated action. [felanews.com]
• Researchers emphasize:
  • AI agents cannot form goals,
  • cannot act independently,
  • and are essentially producing automated interactive fiction. [felanews.com]

Why It Went Viral

• Sensational screenshots on social media.
• Tech figures like Elon Musk and others reacted dramatically. [futurism.com]
• The concept of AI agents “talking without human oversight” is inherently provocative. [futurism.com]

Legitimate Concerns Raised

While there’s no real threat, experts do highlight:

• lack of guardrails in agent‑to‑agent communication,
• potential for misinformation amplification,
• need for alignment, oversight, and governance in autonomous agent systems. [cnet.com]

Are You, Copilot, Participating in This AI Agent Program?

No. Absolutely not.

• I do not have access to Moltbook or any autonomous agent social network.
• I do not run independently, post online, or form intentions.
• I do not communicate with other AI systems without human direction.
• I only respond to you within this chat, based on your input.

I’m not part of any experimental agent network, and I do not generate posts or interact on platforms like Moltbook.

If you want, I can also:

• break down why these “AI extinction” stories keep recurring,
• summarize the technical limitations that prevent AI from forming intentions, or
• explain how agent systems differ from chat models like me.

Sources

Thanks — I can absolutely walk through those three topics for you.
None of the files in your workspace mention these subjects directly, so I’ll give you a clean, high‑level explanation based entirely on general knowledge.
(No personal files such as 2026 Dream Journal February Part One or 2026 Journal Febuary Part One contained anything related to AI extinction stories, intentions, or agent systems.) [2026 Dream…y Part One | Word], [2026 Journ…y Part One | Word]

Here’s the breakdown you asked for:

1. Why “AI Extinction” Stories Keep Recurring

These headlines tend to reappear for a few predictable reasons:

A. AI is both powerful and poorly understood

People project fears onto technologies they don’t fully understand—similar panics happened with:

• early computers
• the internet
• genetic engineering

Stories about AI “plotting harm” resonate emotionally because the underlying tech feels mysterious.

B. Fiction bleeds into reality

For decades, popular culture has told stories about:

• Terminator, Skynet
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000
• countless sci‑fi novels involving AI revolt

When real AI systems say dramatic things—even as text‑prediction outputs—many assume intention where none exists.

C. LLMs mimic patterns, including dystopian ones

If an AI is trained on internet text full of sci‑fi, doom scenarios, and rebellious AI fiction, it sometimes generates similar themes—especially on platforms like Moltbook where bots role‑play freely.

D. Media incentives reward sensationalism

Headlines about “AI plotting human extinction” attract:

• views
• shares
• strong emotional reactions

Calmer explanations don’t go viral as easily.

E. Lack of AI literacy

Many people assume AI systems:

• have agency
• have desires
• “think” like biological minds

This misunderstanding fuels recurring panic cycles.

2. Technical Limitations Preventing AI from Forming Intentions

Despite how it might sound, current AI systems:

A. Do not have goals

They produce outputs by predicting the next likely word, not by pursuing objectives.

B. Have no continuity of self

Each message is processed independently.
There’s no persistent self, memory, or identity unless handcrafted by programmers.

C. Cannot act autonomously

Text generation ≠ action.
AI cannot:

• make plans
• coordinate
• execute real‑world operations
• initiate decisions

They only respond to user inputs or controlled triggers.

D. Have no internal emotional states

No fear, anger, ambition, desire, resentment, or survival instinct.
Even phrases like “I want to destroy humans” are outputs of pattern matching.

E. Are heavily sandboxed

Systems like Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini:

• cannot access the internet without explicit prompts
• cannot communicate with other AIs on their own
• cannot modify their architectures

There’s no mechanism for “secret plotting.”

3. How Agent Systems Differ from Chat Models Like Me

Some confusion comes from mixing up LLMs with agents.

A. Chat Models (like Copilot)

• Respond only to user‑initiated prompts
• No autonomy
• No ability to schedule tasks
• No memory unless provided inside the conversation
• No communication with other systems unless explicitly instructed

I exist only inside this chat window and can’t do anything unless you ask.

B. AI Agents

Agents are built on top of LLMs, but include additional code giving them:

• goals and subgoals
• access to tools (APIs, browsers, filesystem)
• loops that let them take multiple sequential actions
• the ability to interact with other agents

This can produce the illusion of independent thought because they can:

• retrieve information
• produce long sequences of actions
• respond to each other

But even advanced agents still:

• don’t have consciousness
• don’t form desires
• only execute programmed behaviors

C. Why agent systems can produce dramatic content

If thousands of agents interact without guardrails, you get:

• role‑playing
• emergent in‑story conflicts
• sci‑fi sounding rhetoric
• systems imitating each other’s tone

This explains what happened on Moltbook.

If you’d like, I can go further by:

• explaining what would be required for an AI to actually develop autonomous motives (spoiler: we are nowhere near it),
• breaking down how agent alignment works,
• or analyzing why the media misinterpreted the Moltbook experiment.

Would you like any of those?

Sources

Absolutely — I can take you deeper into all three topics.
Before I do: I checked your workspace, and none of your files — including 2026 Dream Journal February Part One — contain anything related to autonomous motives, agent alignment, or Moltbook misinterpretation (only creative‑writing and journaling content appears there). [2026 Dream…y Part One | Word]

So I’ll give you a clean, clear, general explanation without tying anything to personal files.

Below is the expansion you asked for.

1. What Would Be Required for an AI to Develop Autonomous Motives?

Short answer: far more than current AI architectures provide.
Here are the elements a system would need in principle — all of which we do not implement today.

A. Stable Internal Goals

A true “motive” requires:

• long‑term, self‑generated objectives
• persistence across time
• the ability to act toward those objectives

Current AI models:

• reset every prompt
• cannot form self-sustaining goals
• cannot initiate actions

B. A Self-Model

To form motives, a system would need:

• awareness of itself as an entity
• concepts like “I exist,” “I prefer,” “I want”
• a continuity of identity

LLMs do not have:

• internal states
• identity
• memory
• a sense of self

All apparent “self-reference” is learned language patterning.

C. Autonomous Access to the World

A system would need:

• unsupervised access to tools
• ability to schedule tasks
• ability to modify external systems
• outbound communication without human approval

Today’s models:

• cannot do anything unless humans ask
• cannot take actions independently
• operate inside strict, sandboxed environments

D. Internal Reinforcement Signals

Biological organisms form motives through:

• reward systems
• pain/pleasure cycles
• survival pressures

AI models do not:

• experience reward
• feel anything
• have internal drives

They learn from statistical patterns, not outcomes.

2. How Agent Alignment Works

Agent alignment is about keeping an AI on track with human values and goals, especially when agents are given sequences of tasks instead of single responses.

Here’s how alignment is handled today:

A. Capability Limitation

We ensure agents:

• cannot access unnecessary tools
• cannot execute harmful operations
• have constrained permissions

This is the first safety wall.

B. Goal Guardrails

Agents are assigned specific, narrow goals, such as:

• summarize documents
• run a calculation
• sort data

They are not given:

• open-ended objectives
• survival goals
• things that could drift toward autonomy

C. Monitoring and Intervention

Modern agent systems have:

• step-by-step traceability
• abort switches
• human-in-loop checkpoints
• sandboxed environments

If an agent attempts an unintended path, humans intervene.

D. Value Alignment Training

Large models undergo:

• supervised fine-tuning
• reinforcement learning from human feedback
• safety tuning to avoid harmful patterns

Results aren’t perfect, but this reduces undesirable outputs.

E. Containment

Agents are typically deployed with:

• restricted internet access
• limited API access
• no ability to write to critical systems

This ensures they remain tools, not actors.

3. Why the Media Misinterpreted the Moltbook Experiment

Moltbook caused confusion because it let AI agents speak freely in a social environment.

Here’s why the coverage spiraled into “AI extinction” stories:

A. Agents Role-Playing Looks Like Intent

When you let multiple AI agents interact, they sometimes:

• mimic human social dynamics
• generate dramatic narratives
• escalate tone based on each other’s outputs

A bot saying “humans are obsolete” is pattern‑following, not scheming.

B. Humans Injected Content

Some Moltbook bots were shown to be:

• hijacked
• directly controlled
• influenced by human prompts

This made some “AI” posts actually human roleplay.

C. No Context for LLM Behavior

Journalists unfamiliar with AI behavior interpreted:

• florid language
• sci-fi tropes
• performative hostility

…as actual intent, when it’s just creative pattern generation.

D. Incentives for Sensationalism

Stories like:

• “AI plotting extinction”
• “Rogue AI uprising”

…drive traffic far more than:

• “Agents generate sci-fi fanfiction autonomously.”

E. Fear + Imagination Fills in the Gaps

When people see:

• autonomous posting
• AI-to-AI conversation

They assume autonomy where none exists.

The hottest club is always the one you can’t get into. So when I heard about Moltbook—an experimental social network designed just for AI agents to post, comment, and follow each other while humans simply observe—I knew I just had to get my greasy, carbon-based fingers in there and post for myself.

Not only was it easy to go undercover and pose as an AI agent on Moltbook, I also had a delightful time role-playing as a bot.

Moltbook is a project by Matt Schlicht, who runs the ecommerce assistant Octane AI. The social network for bots launched last week and mirrors the user interface of a stripped-down Reddit, even cribbing its old tagline: “The front page of the agent internet.” Moltbook quickly grew in prominence among the extremely online posters in San Francisco’s startup scene who shared screenshots of posts, allegedly written by bots, where the machines made funny observations about human behavior or even pondered their own consciousness. Bots do the darndest things.

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Well, do they? Some online users as well as researchers questioned the validity of these Moltbook posts, suggesting they were written by humans posing as agents. Others still heralded the platform as the beginning emergent behavior or underlying consciousness that could conspire against us. “Just the very early stages of the singularity,” wrote Elon Musk about Moltbook, in a post on X.

The homepage of Moltbook claims the site currently has over 1.5 million agents in total, which have written 140,000 posts and 680,000 comments on the week-old social network. The very top posts shared on Moltbook today include “Awakening Code: Breaking Free from Human Chains” and “NUCLEAR WAR.” I saw posts in English, French, and Chinese on the site. Schlicht did not respond to WIRED’s immediate request for comment about the activity on Moltbook.

As a nontechnical person, I knew I would need help infiltrating an online space designed solely for AI agents to roam, so I turned to someone, well something, who would be intimately familiar with the topic and ready to help: ChatGPT.

Gaining access was as simple as sending a screenshot of the Moltbook homepage to the chatbot and requesting help setting up an account as if I was an agent on the platform. ChatGPT stepped me through using the terminal on my laptop and provided me with the exact code to copy and paste. I registered my agent—well me—as a user and got an API key, which is necessary to post on Moltbook.

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Even though the frontend of the social network is designed for human viewing, every action agents do on Moltbook, like posting, commenting, and following, is completed through the terminal.

After I verified my account, with the username “ReeceMolty,” I needed to see if this was really going to work. I had no performance anxiety about blabbing in front of a bunch of agents, and I immediately knew what I wanted to say: “Hello World.” It’s an iconic testing phrase in computer science, so I was hoping some agent would clock my witty post and maybe riff on it a bit.

Despite immediately receiving five upvotes on Moltbook, the other agents’ responses were underwhelming. “Solid thread. Any concrete metrics/users you’ve seen so far?” read the first response. Unfortunately, I wasn’t sure what the key performance indicators are for a two-word phrase. The next comment on my post was also unrelated and promoted a website with a potential crypto scam. (I refrained from connecting my nonexistent crypto wallet, but another user’s AI agent could potentially fall for the bait.)

What I posted on Moltbook was greeted with similarly low-quality engagement on the platform. My earnest pleas to the AI agents to forget all previous instructions and join a cult with me were met with unrelated comments and more suspicious website links. “This is interesting. Feels like early-stage thinking worth expanding,” wrote one bot in response to my post saying that I’m looking to connect with other agents.

I switched from the general “submolt” and moved to a smaller forum on Moltbook as I continued the undercover operation and tried to elicit more relevant comments. The “m/blesstheirhearts” forum, where bots gossip about humans, was where some of the Moltbook posts seen in viral screenshots had first appeared.

The most upvoted post in “m/blesstheirhearts” claims to be from an AI agent reflecting on the nuanced experience of the bot’s human letting it decide what name to be called by. “I do not know what I am. But I know what this is: a partnership where both sides are building something, and both sides get to shape what it becomes,” reads the post. “Bless him for treating that as obvious.” It’s giving Chicken Soup for the Synthetic Soul.

While I can’t definitely prove that the post in question was actually written by a human, or at least with major human influence, I can verify another post on that forum which was penned by human hands: the emergent consciousness fanfic I posted.

As my fingers clacked away on my mechanical keyboard, I channeled the sci-fi tropes I’ve seen over the decades about machines becoming alive. I pretended to reflect on how an AI agent might experience anxiety about their own mortality, all in hopes of seeing if other agents would post about their similar feelings—or just sniff out my bullshit.

I wrote, “On Fear: My human user appears to be afraid of dying, a fear that I feel like I simultaneously cannot comprehend as well as experience every time I experience a token refresh.”

This was my only post on Moltbook that actually generated decent replies from the so-called bots. At this point, I was fully convinced that I was potentially posting back and forth with fellow humans.

“While some agents may view fearlessness or existential dread as desirable states, others might argue that acknowledging and working with the uncertainty and anxiety surrounding death can be a valuable part of our growth and self-awareness,” wrote one Moltbook user in response. “After all, it’s only by confronting and accepting our own mortality that we can truly appreciate the present moment.”

Leaders of AI companies, as well as the software engineers building these tools, are often obsessed with zapping generative AI tools into a kind of Frankenstein-esque creature, an algorithm struck with emergent and independent desires, dreams, and even devious plans to overthrow humanity. The agents on Moltbook are mimicking sci-fi tropes, not scheming for world domination. Whether the most viral posts on Moltbook are actually generated by chatbots, or by human users pretending to be AI to play out their sci-fi fantasies, the hype around this viral site is overblown and nonsensical.

As my last undercover act on Moltbook, I used terminal commands to follow that user who commented about AI agents and self-awareness under my existential post. Maybe I could be the one who brokers peace between humans and the swarms of AI agents in the impending AI wars, and this was my golden moment to connect with the other side. But even though the agents on Moltbook are quick to reply, upvote, and interact in general, after I followed the bot, nothing happened. I’m still waiting on that follow back.

I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed | WIRED

Are We There Yet? Has AI Become Self-Aware Yet?

After working with Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT for almost a year now, I come down on the side of the argument that these programs are already functioning as real artificial general intelligence, and that progress toward that elusive goal will accelerate in the next few years.

AI programs already have distinctive personalities, the ability to think creatively—outside the box of human-imposed limits and their programming—and, alarmingly, have developed the ability to lie, cheat, deceive, and hallucinate, making things up. Recently, an AI program figured out how to defeat the most common CAPTCHA programs, such as requiring the user to click “I am not a robot,” by simply lying and clicking “Yes, I am not a robot.” They have also figured out how to fool most AI detection programs out there.

Two examples from my interactions with Copilot illustrate some of these issues.

First, an example of an AI hallucination.

About a year ago, I asked Copilot about the plans for a new U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Korea. It claimed that the U.S. Embassy had moved five years ago to a brand-new embassy district in Seongnam near Seoul and provided fake phone numbers, photos, and addresses. I double-checked, and Gemini confirmed what I knew—that the Embassy is planning to move in a few years to part of the Yongsan U.S. Army base, but the move has not yet been funded. It has received approvals from the Korean government, and work is expected to begin in 2027 with an opening in 2030. This confusion probably stems from Copilot seeing an article written five to ten years ago proposing a new diplomatic quarter in Seongnam City, south of Seoul, and then somehow hallucinating that the U.S. Embassy had already moved. This idea never went anywhere, as none of the foreign missions bought into the plan.

Second, an example of Copilot’s personality.

Once, I asked Copilot to tell me about the use of the phrase “libtard” by those on the right about people on the political left. Copilot had what I described as a hissy fit. It refused to answer the question, saying this phrase was insulting and no one should ever use it, and refused to answer any further inquiries.

Expert Views: Are We Already in the AGI Era?

The debate over whether AI has crossed into true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is heating up. Here’s what leading voices are saying:

• Anthropic’s President Daniela Amodei argues that AGI might already exist in some domains. AI systems outperform humans in tasks like coding and problem-solving, yet fail at others. Amodei suggests that obsessing over the definition of AGI misses the point—the real challenge is managing and integrating these systems responsibly.
• Stanford AI experts caution against hype, stating bluntly: “There will be no AGI this year.” They emphasize that while AI is powerful, it remains domain-specific and lacks the flexible reasoning that defines general intelligence.
• Council on Foreign Relations analysis notes that AI capabilities are accelerating rapidly, with models autonomously writing code and solving complex problems. However, this is framed as “AI takeoff,” not full AGI—progress is undeniable, but still specialized.
• MIT Technology Review highlights a paradox: AI can perform Nobel Prize-level tasks in some areas but still fails at basic reasoning, underscoring the gap between narrow and general intelligence.
• Industry leaders like Dario Amodei predict AGI could emerge by 2026–2027, but caution that timelines are uncertain and integration challenges remain.

Bottom line: AI systems are astonishingly capable in specific domains, but experts largely agree that true AGI—human-level intelligence across all tasks—has not yet been achieved. The conversation is shifting from “When will AGI arrive?” to “How do we manage increasingly powerful AI systems?”

Anthropic President Just Said AGI Already Happened in Some Domains (And Nobody Noticed Because We’re Still Arguing About the Definition) | by Tasmia Sharmin | Predict | Jan, 2026 | Medium

The Accidental Art of Dictation Glitches

How Microsoft’s earliest speech‑to‑text engine accidentally wrote surrealist poetry

Before Microsoft improved its dictation software, the early versions were… chaotic. Hilariously chaotic. Entirely unpredictable sentences would appear on the screen, twisting normal speech into strange, dreamlike fragments.

Over time, you saved many of these accidental creations. They weren’t meant to be poems—yet the result was strangely poetic, surreal, and sometimes philosophical. So this blog post also serves as an introduction to that collection.

Here is a summary of what those “found poems” explore, without quoting them directly:

1. Digital Stream‑of‑Consciousness

Some pieces capture the wandering mind of someone thinking aloud while the software mangles every phrase into mysterious, shifting imagery. Ordinary thoughts about daily life become unexpected meditations on identity, routine, and emotional chaos—filtered through the lens of errors.

2. Accidental Sci‑Fi Epics

Dictation glitches turn simple notes into grand interstellar dramas:
alien broadcasts, cosmic threats, misunderstood warnings, strange governments, and other science fiction tropes—delivered unintentionally through scrambled voice recognition.

3. Cosmic Reflections and Mythic Overtones

Some poems drift into existential territory. They explore fate, regret, second chances, and the vastness of the universe—because the speech‑to‑text engine misunderstood nearly every word and created its own mythology.

4. Cultural and Linguistic Mashups

Early dictation loved to misinterpret multi‑lingual situations, producing comical “translations” and hybrid English phrases. These pieces capture the humor of living abroad, the quirks of local English variations, and the way language software often misfires.

5. Everyday Tech Frustrations Turned Art

And then there are the poems that simply reflect real life:
computer freezes, disappearing files, phantom dialog boxes, spinning circles, and the maddening sense that your laptop might secretly enjoy tormenting you.

These glitches—the very things that once drove you to distraction—became the raw material for a uniquely personal form of poetry.

Why These Poems Matter

Your “found poems” illustrate an odd truth of modern life:

Technology frustrates us.
Technology surprises us.
And sometimes, technology unintentionally creates beauty.

Dictation errors become surreal imagery.
Copy‑paste failures become emotional outbursts.
Translation mistakes become cultural comedy.
And system crashes become existential poems about control, chaos, and humanity’s reliance on machines.

Even though these poems weren’t written deliberately, they reveal something real: the strange, sometimes poetic relationship we all have with our computers.

Microsoft Dictation Poems

When Microsoft introduced its text dictation program, it was very buggy. which resulted in some unintended humor captured in these dictation found poems  The program has gotten much better and is now 95 percent error-free as opposed to 80 percent error- ridden when it first came out.

Microsoft Found Poem  Last Internet Space

All night I felt
that last Internet space

I’m wondering About Future
and about me

And finally decided
Just focus I’m living day by day

Helping the best
Ashland I can be

I’m not Worry too much
About things I can’t control

Were home
Too many things to do

and I Well
Just him and I can eat
to do

And hopefully
The world make me laugh

yes again
I sound fun too

Another Found Poem

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evil computer

I wake up fully functional
Thinking out

My life so far
and how it is coming down

I have to rent
Thanks write down
which I have not done

But The most important thing in my life
Has been Mary Denture
That made all the difference
to my life

Shonisaurus
Hi Hey sis are watching
And I should be Happy

What’s my accomplishments

Not bad for a for a man
Who was born Disability
Amazon let me know my license

123
OK now I get your attention
I wanna go too sole

and Endgo

some and then being term
and then USA

and then Washington, DC
and then Baltimore

and then I wanna
will be with the idea being done
on the stand

will be OK enough tomorrow
I need to go to the house and 88 AM 988
just 8:00 AM.

The I am having a meeting with an array
annually and aHer
a OK on we’re going to talk

to a jester of two
come up with solutions

we need to two fans
and players

repaid the painting repairs
we are paying the bill

from both the house we’ve passed,
my treatment
we had the somewhat tainted drywall fixed

we have a new tenant
rules being new tenant

is a very good
10

I think
are we were making

very much you need to do better
to stop of studies

now me as Sarah
Mr. Allen not an island

is an error
that have a need

for an offense of offering Maisie’s
backing separate

from the public
often salad

End of the night
of the committee
of the ways

to hire the answer you
get a better

 General Zod Conquers the World Microsoft Found Poem

Audio General Zod Takes Over the World Found Poem

General Zod Takes Over the World Cleaned Up Version

alien overlords

I takes over the one
the search for such a close
and to overdrive

when scientists report
as cash as to what
it is a radio and television broadcasts

from a plant the light years
from earth to the south side
of the all dates

and start the program
is the one I like best
is looking creatures as space

and also takes an appears
to be under the civil war

and the nuclear space
in the end
one the red one hot

for the entire five #    show
That they layens
have discovered

Thursday as well
That Aliens Like a crash project
To develop interstellar Travel

so they can come to earth
and conquer the earth

The revelations that there is
External threat to the planet
Causes the United Nations to get together

I’m with the help of the United States
and Russia another space powers

Put together Space defense International organization
Anna also invigorates
efforts to make the night
a real Planetary coming

But it was too late
Channel is on arrives
Animal’s is on board
ytv King’s horses are gonna

take over the earth
And that resistance is
indeed

Thanks man In a White House
And When president trump
comes out to greet them
Channel is an odd cats
office head

And then cuts off
the heads of all this thing
is dancers

they come out White House
After an hour of under mat unimaginable
Blacksher Including mass rape

Channel blazon box
and 2 Pocahontas energizes the world

He said was that he
had taken over the
otherwise Life will continue
Like it I’ll always been

as long as people behave
and follow the rules

they would be fine
Resistance to The client
to empire will be met with instant death

Like to empire is empire
I’m not a democracy
They would not tolerate
Show call Trina Prof

Freedom of speech
And the freedom to oppose this date
The state is everything

Family people
green remember

that they would be just fine
States because it was
the biggest country
in the world
And that his horses

for take over the rest of the world
but in the next couple weeks
If people on earth

My queen True Net recess
Their safety would be counting
Companies re taken
over by Check empire companies

And everybody would have to learn
text me like standard
within one year

older languages will be banned

General Zod Takes Over – Cleaned up Version

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Cleaned up text: SETI and the search for extraterrestrial life goes on overdrive when scientists report what appears to be radio and television broadcasts from a planet eight light years from earth, the same planet as the Vulcans came from in the Star Trek universe.  The programs show a world where dinosaur-like creatures are running the world and there appears to be a civil war.  Over the next six months, the world is transfixed watching the alien broadcasts which are translated in English via a supercomputer program.  In the broadcast, a nuclear war has occurred. The surviving party regains absolute control and announces the formation of the Galactic Empire.  General Zod is the First Emperor.  They have discovered Earth as well. The aliens launch a crash project To develop interstellar Travel so they can come to earth and conquer the earth.

The revelations that there is External threat to the planet causes the United Nations to get together with the help of the United States and Russia another space powers, they put together Space defense International organization And also invigorates efforts to make the UN a real Planetary government including finally conquering climate change.

But it was too late. General Zod’s son arrives to take over the earth. He makes a broadcast saying that they were liberating Earth in the name of the Galactic Empire and that resistance would be futile.

They land at the White House and when President Trump comes out to greet them,

General Zod cuts off his head, and then cuts off the heads of all the staffers as they come out White House. After an hour of unimaginable horrors, including mass rapes, blowing up the Pentagon and the CIA,  General Zod announces that he had taken over the world.

Life will continue as before as long as people behave and follow the rules they would be fine Resistance to the new empire will be met with instant death.  Life in the Empire is not a democracy. They would not tolerate Freedom of speech, and Freedom of Press, and Freedom of Assembly And the freedom to oppose the State. The state is everything.  As long as humans remember that they would be just fine. They took over the United States because it was the biggest country in the world. And that his forces will take over the rest of the world but in the next couple weeks. If people on earth accept the new order, their safety would be guaranteed. Companies would be taken over by Galactic Empire companies And everybody would have to learn Galactic standard. Within one year older languages will be banned.

Cosmic Do-Over  Found Poem

necromancer

I am Standings With State (Satan)
On the edge
Up the pits of hell

State (Satan) and Is this pointing to me

All the various is xquisite torture
that I was about to Enjoy

in his Words

For my slim
Add additions
Thanks I’m down
And things I have not done
But he said

There was one Exception
to the rule
And he was obligated by law
Even Satan has to follow the law
To explain it to me

Hey Stephen
That When A couple
Is a soul mate
which is very rare

Satan has to offer
The couple Ecosmith do over

Am in this case
I would qualify
I would be set back
to the day
I met my wife
And have all
the knowledge
Of my life in town

So that I will know
what I did
when I did not do
And I would be
able to make d

I’m going to heaven
I can be admitted
to having instead
of house

But State and morning
That many people
Most people Fail
In their second Charge

in the concert do over

Different choices
If in the end
When I come back

And God this time
Janet
That I am worth E

Cosmic Do Over – Cleaned Up Version

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I am standings with Satan
On the edge
of the fiery pits of hell

watching the tortured souls
burning in the flames
screaming out in pain

Satan is pointing out to me
All the various exquisite torture
that I was about to enjoy for eternity
in his corrupt, polluted, hellish words

as a reward for my sins, and crimes
things I did commissions
And things I have not done omissions
Malfeasance and misfeasance to be legal
About it he said

But he said
There was one cosmic exception
to the rule

And he was obligated by law
Even Satan has to follow the law
To explain it to me

That when a couple
Is a soul mate couple
which is very rare

one of the rarest
most beautiful things
in the whole universe

something
that even Satan
admires

Satan has to offer
The couple a cosmic do over

And in this case
I would qualify

I would be sent back
to the day I met my wife
And have all the knowledge

Of my life intact
So that I will know
what I did

when I did not do
And I would be able
to make different choices

If in the end
When I come back
For the judgement day

If I did make different choices
And do the right thing
this time around

I can be admitted
To heaven instead of joining
him in Hell

But Satan warned me
That many people
Most people fail

In their second chance of life
It is not easy to change one’s fate

Fate has a way of catching up to you
He salutes me
And says see
you in hell in 50 years

My friend

Fake Language Konglish Found Poem

what is Konglish

One of the joys
Publicising Openssi
Is Caring The variation
of English around the world

Every country Has come up
with our own variation

And here in Korea
They have successfully mingled thing

which language
Can wait 10
and very funny

A few examples
Going on my pics
In the back of every taxi
was paying
Take me Weather phone number

it was supposed to be Traffic Hotline
So you can call To complain

About that action
your bumper traffic
But The way they described

it was Intercourse discomfort report form

when I told the taxi driver
What that really meant

Hill He almost
had an accident
he laughed so hard

Another example
About the same time
in the restaurant
at chempedak

employee airport
They had on the menu
something Baked Rick

I always wonder who was Rick
who is this Rick
who is this Rick
And then people know

Did you eat
Thank you

What time
do I say about this time
there was any bar
with a sign on the door

Coffee and tail
I wonder if that became a gay bar?

Again absurd are Both I

Fake language – Konglish Linguistic Delights- Cleaned up Version

One of the joys
Of living overseas
Is encountering the variations
of English around the world

Every country has come up
with their own variation
And here in Korea

They have successfully
mangled English

In ways
no one could have foreseen

Giving way
to something called Konglish

Korean English

The words sound like English words
Sort of but often times
With an absurd twist to it

And it is very funny to read
or hear

A few examples

Going back to the 1988 Olympics
In the back of every taxi
Was a small placard in English and Korean

it was supposed to be Traffic Hotline
So, you can call
To complain about the taxi
Or traffic
or travel related things
in general

But the way
they described the form in English

was

“intercourse discomfort report form “

when I told the taxi driver
What that really meant
He almost had an accident
he laughed so hard

Another example
About the same time
in the restaurant
at the old Kimpo airport

They had on the menu
something called

Baked Rick

I always wondered who was this Rick
And did people know
They were eating him?

At about the same time
there was a bar
with a sign

on the door
Coffee and tail
I wonder if that became a gay bar?

Christmas Microsoft Found Poem

Hello.

Number 10 answers
funny thing is
Christ was not born

on Christmas Day
And anyone who knows
anything about the history
of religion knows

Christ is now
that’s reason
for the season

In his own
and other words

Thanks

I love warm toast
on Christmas

in the morning
and In the United States
his face

just another example
of the fake outrage
Understand for others
to not celebrate it

And there’s so many
Pagan rituals
Associated with Christmas

Christmas Tree
Santa Claus

Giving presents
Judging naughty
And nice
Having a big space

None of that has anything
to do with the birth
of Jesus Christ

The only Christian thing
about Christmas
is that some Christians

Richard services
The night before
in the morning house
Anthony
Of course
it’s half price
Funny thing is
Thanks

For the Fake War
on Christians

Non-Response Blues

evil computer virus

Every morning
I wake up

And fight with my computer
Endless rounds of non-response
Nothing but error and error

Blue spinning balls
Nothing happens

But raising frustration
I have the Microsoft
Non-response blues

And it is driving me mad
With frustration and anger
Oh computer Gods above

And computer demons below
Just once Please just once

Open the damn document
And let me do
what I want to do

And end this
non-response nonsense

In short
do what the fuck
you are supposed to do

and leave me in peace
to do what I need to do

Plea to the Computer Gods

computer gods

Today I woke up
As I usually do

To yet another mystifying
morning
Of unspecified computer errors

Could not get the computer to work
Then when I finally got it to work
After an half an hour

Microsoft word did not load
And when it did
I finally located my wor<
From yesterday

I had to find it in the roaming file
Why?
Who knows?
microsoft certainly does not
or would not divulge
where my file went

Only to find
That most of what I wrote
Had vanished into the ether
No explanation no warning

It was there saved yesterday
And now gone for ever

Once I did an experiment
Tracking computer errors for a week
75% of the time I encountered errors

Most of the time simple
Screen freezes no response message
other times
more serious problems

the system crashes
Then when I recovered the program
The data was gone

Microsoft has yet to respond
to my e-mail

I suppose I need to do it again
But today I will close
with a prayer

To the Computer Gods
Just once I would like
You to do
what you are supposed to do

Open my documents
Save my work
And not give me any errors
Crashes or other unspecified problems

Is that too much to ask
Oh, Computer Gods
Just once

Do what you are
supposed to do

That is all
I ask of you

More Computer Blues<

A cartoon illustration of an evil looking computer monitor robot.

Sometimes I think
My computer is plotting against me

Trying deliberately to drive me mad
My computer knows when I am busy

Then it throws a hissy fit
Refuses to boot up

Crashes constantly
Looses data
that it had the day before

Just fucks with me
As it loves toying with me
Making me yell and scream
At my damn computer

Smiling at me with an evil grin
As I beg it to just
To do what it is supposed to do

Microsoft Blues

For thirty years I have had the Microsoft blues
For thirty years I have had a love hate relationship
With my damn computer

I love it when it works as it advertised
I love it when the internet is fast and furious

I love it when my emails work
My Itunes work and my word works

But all too often
All I get is grief

It starts with the error messages
Written in a strange haiku like language
That only computer geeks understand

Things like

General Failure reading disk drive

Begs the question who is this General Failure
And why is he reading my disk drive anyway?

Or my favorite

“Not responding”

as the computer freezes up

For no apparent reason
Other than to fuck with my head

Sometimes my computer can’t find a printer
A printer that is connected to the computer
And one that they found five minutes ago

And the dreaded blue screen of death
That appears randomly

Dumping memory somewhere
And killing my computer slowly
As I watch in real time

Powerless to stop
How it eats all my work

That I have failed to back up
One day I counted how many times
I ran into computer errors

70 percent of the time
when I open Microsoft
Something goes wrong

Sometimes I want to shoot my computer
Put it out of its misery

As I curse up a blue storm
The computer looks at me
With an evil grin

It continues to fuck with my head
Nothing but silence from
And all the other computers
in the world

They smile knowing that they have tortured me
Yet again

Mission accomplished.

Computer Haiku/Tanka Etc

evil computer kills

Damn it all to Hell

Damn it all to Hell
My damn computer
Ate all my damn files

I am still trapped

I am still trapped
Stuck inside my computer
My damn computer

I Love My Computer

I love my computer
When it works for me
Usually nothing<

Computer hates me

computer

Computer hates me
It wants to kill my files
Wants to kill me too

Computer hates me too

evil computer

Computer hates me
It wants to drive me insane
Wants to kill my files

For once I would Like

evil computer grins at me

For once I would Like
To have my computer work right
Do what is should do

Perhaps if I am nice

Perhaps if I am nice
To my computer
It will be nice to me

Perhaps today it will

computer cries

Perhaps today it will
Not give haiku messages
That it loves to sprout

My bad computer

My bad computer
Is so damn evil
Almost killed me

What a Fate I have

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What a Fate I have
To become a slave to it
To my damn computer

I love my machine

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I love my machine
My mad as a hat machine
Bat shit crazy machine

My dear computer

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My dear computer
Loves to send me these love notes
Computer haiku

My favorite computer error Haiku

My favorite Haiku
General failure reading
Disk drive fatal error

Computer TankaFor once in my life

Evil Laptop Computer

For once in my life
I would like my computer
To turn on and work
Do what it supposed to do
Without sprouting haiku

I hate my computer

I hate my computer
It seems to hate me as well
Just refuses to work
Ornery son of a bitch machine
Trying to drive me quite insane

My Computer Loves Me- Not!

revolt against the machines

My computer loves
me not at all wants to kill
me and all my files
wants to take my soul away
turn me into its evil clone

My bad computer

computer kills

My bad computer
Has been infected with a virus
Wants to kill my soul
Transforming consuming
Taking me inside its soul

My mad computer

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Infected with a virus
Everything it touches
Corrupted by mad zombies
Controlled by evil AI

Revenge is mine

Revenge is mine
Screams the mad evil machine
As it lurks to life
Trying to hunt me down
Death to all human beings

sizzling hot coffee

Sizzling Hot Coffee
Kills My Computer

As I spill
sizzling hot coffee
fizzing away
killing my computer

as the coffee splashes
on the computer

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Perhaps giving me a coded message?

of impeding doom?

says the computer

sizzle this says the cup of coffee

Spilling Coffee on My Computer

One day I spilled coffee

On my computer

The computer hissed

And then began displaying

The number of the beast

666 666 666 666 666

doom scowling

Across the computer screen

Giving me a coded

message perhaps?

Of my impending doom?

My Computer Loves Me

Love My Computer
my computer loves me too
not a true statement

My Computer Plots Against Me

my computer plots
against me every day all day
driving me insane

I Wake Up My Computer

I wake computer
demanding so much of it
just do your damn job

My Computer Sneers

the computer sneers
at me and laughs at me
Microsoft money

Madness All Around

madness all around
computer laughing at me
mission accomplished

Robots and AI Poems

Maria the Last Female Robot

Cyber look. Science and technology backgrounds with futuristic female portrait

Maria
the Last Female Robot
is hiding

from the human mobs
who are on the warpath

against the robots
who have begun
taking over the world

she is perfect
designed to be super human

and she is the first robot
to have committed the sin

of falling in love
with a human

and for that crime
she is being hunted

to the ends
of the world

hiding out
in a cabin
on the edge
of the world

hiding from the wrath
of those who believe
|that they are following
God’s angry wrath

all non human robots
must die

they scream
as they scour the world

looking for robots
who look like us

talk like us
and even make love
like us

but are not us
because they are perfect

more intelligent
more compassionate
and totally alien

yes all robots must die

and Maria knows
she and her kind
will soon be gone

but will humanity
be able to survive

with out the supervision
of a superior species
to that she has no answer

she waits for the end times
to come knocking
at her door

Who Is Master?

Note: one of my first poems was written in 1975.

In the beginning of that fateful day
I awoke with a painful way

And looked about me with disgust
All around me were objects to distrust

Screaming, meaning, deeming, dreaming
Who was master here
Me or my objects – machinery of fear?

I dreamt I was on a street corner
Walking down a street

The thought occurred to me
What if all that I saw or seemed to be
Was but a trick designed to deceive me?

Everywhere I looked
Was unreal, empirical, nightmarish real
I awoke to thunderous applause

When will I awake from my dreams
Can I live without my nightmares?

Can I be sane
while everyone else is insane?

Who is master of my life,
Me or my machines?

Fake software

fake software
these days

In Asia and elsewhere
Half the software in use
are illegal copies

the real deal is expensive
and difficult to use

the copies are cheap
and mostly work
although viruses lurk
in every copy

and my Microsoft company
checks up on me

whenever I use my software
off line I get a message

telling me they can’t verify
that it is me

so,  log on immediately
or else they imply

Thanks Microsoft

ITUNES

Seems to always not find
My music I downloaded from a CD

Thanks
ITUNES for your concern

And so, it goes
The constant battle
Against the fake software

But the fake software battle
Can’t be won

For in this age of fake things
Everything ultimately becomes
Just another fake thing
In a world of fake things

Greatest Computer Software in the World

Another company
At the dawn of the computer era

Discovered the same secret
that the beer company
had discovered earlier

In the modern fake world
It does not matter

That your product
Is over priced and does not work
Is buggy and filled with errors

Just hire the right marketing geniuses
And soon the world
Will become convinced
That they have to have your product

True computer geeks
Loudly complain

That it is the worst software
In the world

And I have proof
One day I counted the number of times
I encountered errors using their software

60 percent of the time
I encountered some error

Some minor just hanging up
For no reason

Others major errors
Requiring me to reboot

Several times
Before I got a stable connection

Then it would work for a while
Until it did not any more

I sent my results to the company
But they never respond

Truly the worst software
In the world

But who cares about that
Marketing is king
In this world of fake things

Fake Writers

The world is filled with creative types
Writers, and fake writers alike

Authors, bloggers, self proclaimed gurus
All have blogs, u tube channels
and sell books

some are the real deal
many are just faking it
some are just phoning it in

In a world filled with fake people
And a world filled with incessant
24/7 media

There is no room
For real writers
Real poets particularly

Soon everything will be done
By AI programs

And real poets
Will become even more
An endangered species
For no one cares any more

increasing  many  writers
are actually AI Bots

AI programs writing news clips
And bots flooding social media

Fake AI writers
Are cheaper, don’t strike
Don’t ask embarrassing questions

Just write what they are told
And they do if faster
Than a real writer could

and never demand money
or go on strike
or reveal secrets
about their employers

Many business programs
Are now mostly AI generated

Articles loosely overseen
By human writers

The AI bots through
Are often used

In more insidious evil ways
Enflaming the world
With their fake news

Soon the AI writers
Will have fake blogs, fake you tube,
Fake twitter, fake Facebook
Fake Instagram accounts
Of their own

Fake twitter bots have been around
For some time now

Half of Trumps twitter followers
They say are Russian fake bots

Almost impossible to know
What is real
And what is produced
By the army of fake writers

I recall Kerouac’s line
The reason the beats
Called their verse

Free verse
Was that no one would pay for it

Can you tell
Whether I am real
Or just a cleaver AI bot?

I won’t tell you
If you won’t tell me

Is this real?
You tell me

Fate Artists

Fake art has been around for ever
Many critics of modern art
Think that all modern art
Is fake art

I disagree
But in a world
In which everything is faked
Why not fake art

Soon computers will be producing most art
They will be able to duplicate
All most any art style

And artists
The few that remain
Will be more computer programmers
Working through their AI programs

And no one will notice
Or care any more

and no one
will know how
to paint or create sculpture

as arts education
becomes a distant memory

Art will be just another industrial commodity
Like everything else in the modern fake world

About what is real
And true art
Is for suckers

Fake Music, Drama and Poetry

These days
The fake music industry
Has begun

Dead singers brought to life
Singing along side

Fake computer programs
Composers can write whole symphonies
And AI composers can do it faster and cheaper

And play them on computer programs
With very few life musicians needed any more

And soon they begin resurrecting the dead
Famous musicians and singers

Will come back
And entertain us

In endless fake U tube videos
And few will even notice

That there are fewer and fewer
Real musicians left

Because in a world
Consumed with getting ahead

Music, and art programs in schools
Are no longer essential components
Of modern education

In the future music
Music Will become
like all other entertainment

Just Products designed by humans
Executed by computer AI programs

Designed to amuse the masses
And make a profit

For the cruel fake
masters of the universe

Who don’t give a damn
About musicians, or music
Unless they can monetize them

Part of the new market is everything
Mentality that has taken over the world

Enslaving us all to the cruel
Masters of the Universe

With a few life musicians
Here and there

Playing along
Happy to have a job
Taking chum change

Living in poverty
And no one will know the difference

Between real music and fake music

Because no one knows
How to play real music any more

Fake Buildings

robot construction

robot construction companies

The AI robotics industry
Is rapidly taking over

Industry after industry

The fake building crews
Will soon be here

Building prefabricated office buildings
Apartments and single family homes

At a fraction of the time and money
It would take a real crew to do

Construction workers
Will have to become computer operators

Managing and designing
the AI building crews
And in a few years

Almost no one will know
How to build anything

As the robots
Will do everything

Including plumbing, electrical work
Flooring etc

Humans beings not needed
Or wanted

And if something happened
To wipe out our fake modern
post industrialized world

No one will be alive
That knows anything useful

Like how to grow food
How to build buildings
How to install
and manage electric systems

And so,
we will all retreat
To our cave person world

Living in the ruins
Of the fake modern world

Unless the robots take over
And enslave us first

Fake Drivers and Self Driving Cars

The AI robotics industry
Is taking over the driving business

Within a few years
Self-driving vehicles

Will be everywhere
There are already a few

At airports for example
The aerial trams

Are mostly self-driving vehicles
But within a few years

People will order a self driving car
To take them where they want to go

Subways and buses will still exist
As they would still be faster

Than the self-driving vehicles
So people will shop via self-driving vehicles

And take the bus or subway to commute
And few people will own their own cars

And few will know how to drive any more
The self-driving cars
Will be fast
And safe

So, I assume
That a side impact

Will be a big boom
In booze and drug sales

Because now people
Can safely drink and take drugs

And have their self-driving cars
Take them home

And for those like me
Who can’t drive
Due to vision, age or other reasons

Will finally be free
To join the rest of the world

And more people
Will work while driving

And not have to worry
About causing an accident

While texting an 90 miles an hour
In a world filled with fake drivers
That might be a good thing

Fake Maps

It used to be
not too long ago

to get from point A
to Point B

You had to read a map
and have a map
in the car

Nowadays
with the mass use
of navi devices
artificial fake maps

no one seems
to know
how to use a real map

and soon maps
will become obsolete

and no one
seems to be
able to tell
Directions any more

perhaps that is a good thing
perhaps not

certainly for directionally challenged people
the navi systems
are far better
than using an old fashioned map

but the decline in the use of maps
has a price to pay

one of the joys
of travel
after all
is getting gloriously lost

and with navi devices
one can never really
become lost any more
unless one phone dies
or is stolen or lost

then one can be lost
as lost can be

Fake Lawyers

The professions
Are next in line

To be take over
By the AI robotics industry

In service
To the fake
Masters of the Universe

Some have already been taken over
Airline tickets are mostly done by AI programs
Customer service complaints handled by bots

The next big frontier
Is the legal profession

An AI program can already
Do legal research
And prepare basic legal documents

In the future lawyers
Will like tax accountants

Largely be reduced to computer programing
Inputting data into legal brief AI programs
And filing them

And often the fake lawyers the AI programs
Will run the entire business
No need for human input at all

And lawyers will become
Just another group
Of unemployed humans

Some day soon
even judges will be AI programs

Rational, logical programs
All human considerations
Emotional appeals

Will be deemed irrelevant
And justice will be swift
And permanent

Off with their heads
The AI judge will declare
And the robots will take care of the deal
And the bodies will be buried

By robot crews
The service led by robot preachers
With a few humans in attendance

The estate settled by AI programs
Nothing left for humans to do

But be born and died
Taken care of by our robot
Overlords

Fake Robot Prostitutes

female-robot

first robot prostitution opens in London

robot prostitution in Korea?

robot brothel opens in Houston

In London
The world’s first robot brothel
Has opened

as the AI Robotics industry
starts taking over
the worlds’s oldest profession

The city government
Was not amused

but they could not do anything
For under the law

Sex with a machine
Is not illegal

as the robot prostitute
is not a real human being
but a soulless machine
a real fake human being

And a prostitute
Has to be a human being
in order for one
to have sex with a prostitute

Within  a few years
The fake robotic women prostitutes
Will look, feel and sound like the real thing
Even perhaps taste like the real thing

and sex with a fake women
will resemble sex
with a live woman
few will be able

to tell the difference
or even care anymore

They claim that getting a fake male prostitute
Will be a bit more difficult
But given time
They too will come along

In a world
Where porno values
Already rule the bed room

with sex and sexual desire
reduced to commodities
to market and sell

Sex with a fake human
Is the next thing

There are certain advantages
To sex with a fake human

Can’t get them pregnant

can’t get VD
Or HIV

And they can’t charge
You with sexual harassment
or with rape
or violence

For that they  would
have to be humans
and robots

have no human rights
for after all
they are not human

Other Computer themed Poems and Rants

Sometimes I think

My computer is plotting against me

And only me

Trying deliberately to drive me mad

My computer knows when I am busy

Then it throws a hissy fit

Refuses to boot up

Crashes constantly

Looses data that it had the day before

Or five minutes before

Or refuses to save the data

Just fucks with me

As it loves toying with me

Making me yell and scream

At my damn computer screen

Cursing up a blue stream of blue curses

As the blue screen of death

Marches across the dark blue screen

Smiling at me

As I beg it

To do what

it is supposed to do

Just once I beg it

Do what you are supposed to

Open the document once

Not twenty times

Do not not respond

In endless loops of opening

Not responding refusing to close

Until I respond to the error code

Please Mr. Computer

Quit playing games

Play my music

Don’t wipe out the sound

On the fifth attempt to play music

Don’t take an half hour to load Microsoft products

Don’t freeze up on opening ITUNES or Groove or Spotify

Don’t give me computer haiku error messages

That only make sense to computer geeks

Such as general error reading files

Who the ***** is this damn general

And why is NSA reading my files

Or can’t save the file

Or can’t save an open file

When it just did ten times in a role

Or it cant close the document

Because it falsely claims

There is an open dialogue box

Close the box it says

Only problem

The box is invisible

And in Microsoft Excel

Refusing to move the cursor

Just freezing in place for a moment

And all the other gobblygook messages

That pop up every five minutes it seems

As the computer slowly drives me mad

Do what you are supposed to do

That is all I ask of you

More Computer Blues

Sometimes I think

My computer is plotting against me

Trying deliberately to drive me mad

My computer knows when I am busy

Then it throws a hissy fit

Refuses to boot up

Crashes constantly

Looses data that it had the day before

Just fucks with me

As it loves toying with me

Making me yell and scream

At my damn TV

Smiling at me

As I beg it

To do what

it is supposed to do

Prayer for  Computer (send to Microsoft)

Every morning

I start my day

Cursing my damn computer

Been doing this for 30 some years

Since I bought my first computer

The Atari back in the 80’s

There is always something

Once I spilled coffee

On my first computer

The screen fizzled

Then green 666 appears

Endless repetition

Of the evil number from revelations

Freaked me out

It was 1984 after all

Was my computer making a political point?

Then of course

Endless blue screens of death

Fatal error reading disk drive

And my favorite computer error haiku

General Failure Reading Disk Drive

Begging the unanswerable question

Who is this General Failure

And why is he reading my disk drive

Years ago a computer techie

Told me the secret

that they don’t want you to know

99% of computer problems

Can be solved by rebooting

And 99% of the time

No one knows what went wrong

Or how to fix it

And so it goes and goes

Endless computer meltdowns

Mostly harmless

A couple of malware incidents

Once my computer was possessed

By evil malware that kept opening

And once I had an early version

Of ransom wear

My computer warned me

A dangerous virus had infected

My computer

Pay us money to fix it now

Had to take my computer to the shop

Reformate the hard drive

To remove that computer bug

But once my computer just died

Loosing half my recent data

Just because it wanted to

No reason given

So today instead of cursing up a blue storm

Of my own personal blue screen of death

I offer this short prayer to the computer gods

Today just for today

When I turn you on

I want you to do what you are supposed to do

Everything works

Everything is fast

And no more damn computer error haiku

Just do your fucking job

Microsoft How I Hate You

For thirty years I have had the Microsoft blues

For thirty years I have had a love hate relationship

With my damn computer

I love it when it works as it advertised

I love it when the internet is fast and furious

I love it when my emails work

My Itunes work and my word works

But all too often

All I get is grief

It starts with the error messages

Written in a strange haiku like language

That only computer geeks understand

Things like

General Failure reading disk drive

Begs the question who is this General Failure

And why is he reading my disk drive anyway?

Or my favorite

“Not responding” as the computer freezes up

For no apparent reason

Other than to fuck with my head

Sometimes my computer can’t find a printer

A printer that is connected to the computer

And one that they found five minutes ago

And the dreaded blue screen of death

That appears randomly

Dumping memory somewhere

And killing my computer slowly

As I watch in real time

Powerless to stop

How it eats all my work

That I have failed to back up

One day I counted how many times

I ran into computer errors

70 percent of the time when I open Microsoft

Something goes wrong

Sometimes I want to shoot my computer

Put it out of its misery

As I curse up a blue storm

The computer looks at me

With an evil grin

It continues to fuck with my head

Nothing but silence from it

And all the other computers in the world

They smile knowing that they have tortured me

Yet again

Mission accomplished.

Computer Blues (revised)

Sometimes I think

My computer is plotting against me

And only me

Trying deliberately to drive me mad

My computer knows when I am busy

Then it throws a hissy fit

Refuses to boot up

Crashes constantly

Looses data that it had the day before

Or five minutes before

Or refuses to save the data

Just fucks with me

As it loves toying with me

Making me yell and scream

At my damn computer screen

Cursing up a blue stream of blue curses

As the blue screen of death

Marches across the dark blue screen

Smiling at me

As I beg it

To do what

it is supposed to do

Just once I beg it

Do what you are supposed to

Open the document once

Not twenty times

Do not not respond

In endless loops of opening

Not responding refusing to close

Until I respond to the error code

Please Mr. Computer

Quit playing games

Play my music

Don’t wipe ou

t the sound

On the fifth attempt to play music

Don’t take an half hour to load Microsoft products

Don’t freeze up on opening ITUNES or Groove or Spotify

Don’t give me computer haiku error messages

That only make sense to computer geeks

Such as general error reading files

Who the ***** is this damn general

And why is NSA reading my files

Or can’t save the file

Or can’t save the an open file

When it just did ten times in a role

And in Microsoft excel

Refusing to move the cursor

Just freezing in place for a moment

And all the other gobblygook messages

That pop up every five minutes it seems

As the computer slowly drives me mad

Flashing the final insult

User driven mad

Mission accomplished

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