Remember

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

God? Even calling it consciousness would be a huge stretch.

A new god? In this economy?

I don’t even like the old god.

I think that's giving it too much credit.

Isnt this the Plot of Fear and hunger 2?

I prefer to just straight up clone a brain, which I'm actively waiting to be able to afford to do. Going to start with Larval zebra fish, see if tuning the virtual cells to be more like human ones will do anything, if it's a success, just let it loose at like x1000 emulation speed.

Could you not make it sound so awesome?

But also replace Artificial God with hallucinating chatbot and now it sounds dumb again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i_oWzHlYLs

Sounds like some good weird shit for an anime... maybe some surreal Fate spin-off

Our new God is a narcissistic, selfish psychopath. So... just like the last one. And the ones before him. And the ones before those. And...

Ha ha, alright! Love ya, buddy, goodnight!

door closes

Sounds very Warhammer-ish

They want the Chaos Gods to be real.

As it was foretold.

Well I wasn't, but I guess I got a new project down in the septic

Not to mention replacing the creation of art with consumption of generated "content" (read: slop)

(Somehow, Orwell saw this coming. One might expect this to be something out of Brave New World, but no, it's 1984.)