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AI's societal control prompts user boycott, ending cyberpunk genre

A narrative explores a future where corporations leverage AI for societal control, prompting a widespread boycott by IT professionals, hackers, and general users. This collective refusal effectively dismantled the cyberpunk genre, suggesting a loss of its defining elements due to the suppression of its core themes. AI

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AI's societal control prompts user boycott, ending cyberpunk genre

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    #Cyberpunk #story #prompt . When corporations introduced #AI to tighten their control over the society, #IT professionals, #hackers and plain #users refused to

    #Cyberpunk #story #prompt . When corporations introduced #AI to tighten their control over the society, #IT professionals, #hackers and plain #users refused to touch it and #boycott ’ed it away. Thus, Cyberpunk was no more.