AI Videos Ate My Brain - And I kinda love it

I discovered it is surprisingly easy to accidentally indoctrinate your children. See, Twitter was aflutter with p(doom) renditions and I became particularly enamoured by this faux anime take by MakeVoid. It’s cute! It’s peppy! It’s a direct causal link to me hearing my 5-year old sing “Orthogonality thesis blueeeeeee-ue-ue-ues”. Now in my defense, I grew up agnostic. No Sunday hymns or evangelical pop for me. Just my sister awkwardly shushing me when I started cheerfully belting out “My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard” before anyone had explained low protein milkshake alternatives to me. Now once my children were cheerfully reciting a first approximation of AGI Ruin , I did ask them what they thought the song was about. My 8 year old said it was about “ChatGPT please don’t eat us” and my 5 year old said it was about “AGI”. When I asked her what AGI actually is, she said it’s when the computer talks to you but you shouldn’t listen cause it might hurt you. Oh. Well. I mean. Kiiiiinda? So, that was my crash course in the childhood memetic effects of catchy tunes. I briefly debated playing the competing songs of e/acc for them, but in the end decided I’d just be more mindful