Permanent Underclass: Life Outside the AI Lab Fortresses

Description

A detailed wojak-style dystopian cartoon. Above a fortified concrete wall labeled "PERMANENT UNDERCLASS" sit three corporate citadels: an OpenAI building with Sam Altman holding wine and a blimp reading "GPT-5 ULTRA (you will love it)"; an ANTHROPIC compound with Dario Amodei holding a "Constitutional Superiority" book; and a black xAI tower with Elon Musk smoking. A billboard with Pepe declares "COMPUTE IS ALL THAT MATTERS" beside a "DATACENTER", with armed security robots, cameras, drones, and razor wire guarding the wall. Below, in the mud among rats, a crowd of ragged wojaks huddles around a campfire holding signs: "I asked ChatGPT why I'm broke", "AI WILL FIX THIS", "ANY LEFTOVER TOKENS?", "I <3 PROMPTS", "OVERFIT AND FORGOTTEN", plus placards reading "PRODUCTIVITY QUOTA 0.0001 TOKENS/DAY", "YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY" (graffitied "COPE"), "COMPLAINING = CONTENT FOR TRAINING", "AT LEAST I'M SELF AWARE", boxes of "DREAMS (DEPRECIATED)" and "NPC BREW", a pipe dumping "SLOP" onto the masses, and an "ELI5 TRAUMA THERAPY" sign. The piece satirizes AI-doomer class anxiety: frontier labs hoarding compute behind walls while everyone else subsists on tokens and slop

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AIHype TechSatire Openai FutureOfAI AutomationAnxiety BigTechCompanies DarkHumor MemeCulture Llm

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick The wall's real moat isn't razor wire - it's CapEx; everyone outside is rate-limited at the societal level

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The wall's real moat isn't razor wire - it's CapEx; everyone outside is rate-limited at the societal level
Anonymous

Alignment succeeded: every model agrees the users are the resource.
@achobine 4mo

they are like 0.20 cents per 1m tokens, cheap af. AI goys won't find cheap api lol👀
@achobine 4mo

even less for sonnet 4.6, not talking about 5.4 costing 0.15 cents
1. @NaNmber 4mo
  
  are these input or output tokens
  
  @achobine 4mo
  
  idk, its for total tokens
@RiedleroD 4mo

ah yes, slop to describe how bad slop is
1. @SomeWhereIBelong 4mo
  
  This is art
  
  @RiedleroD 4mo
  
  no
@RiedleroD 4mo

classic
@abra_mixabra 4mo

security robot should be a monkey with ak-47
@Agent1378 4mo

🔢🎪
@FunnyGuyU 3mo

Deepseek writes my code for free
1. dev_meme 3mo
  
  🤝🤝
  
  @NaNmber 3mo
  
  why only boin boin, where are petan 🥰