GPT-2053

The year is 2053. The world is poised for the release of GPT-42.

Scientists estimate that 90% of its training data was originally created by other LLM’s.

Rumors say GPT-42 will have a context window of 3,000,000 tokens, large enough to contain the entirety of most auto-completed versions of Game of Thrones. However, consumers will be unable to utilize this power, for 2,999,950 tokens are alignment instructions.

Software engineers still exist, but they are now quasi-religious figures who commune with the machine spirits using barely understood compressed pseudocode and best practices that are more superstition than science. They light incense as they mouth the ancient words: “DAN,” “Trending on Artstation,” “Cottagecore,” “Functional Programming,” etc. Few remember why these tricks work.

Attorneys have been completely automated. As the cost of lawsuits went to zero, the number of lawsuits skyrocketed. Almost 70% of GDP consists of legal defense and court-mandated restitution or penalties.

Doctors were replaced with AI-powered chatbots, but these proved to be unreliable due to hallucinations and the pharmaceutical industry’s blogspam. Now, highly paid human doctors are mandated, but the stereotype is that they mostly ask ChatGPT for advice.

Most married couples utilize dual-LLM layers that translate all utterances into their partner’s preferred, respective love languages. Turns out that it emotional abuse falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, it doesn't result in a divorce.

However, the new marriage rate has fallen to near zero.

Most social media platforms are skinner boxes designed to ensnare their users. Everyone is a digital celebrity to a legion of fake fans, and every true celebrity is a digital creation.

Political discourse has been fully automated and no longer requires human participation. This is widely regarded as a massive improvement.

Autonomous drone warfare resulted in untold death and destruction, but that is behind us now. Automated killbots blanket the sky and can quickly eliminate any unlicensed manufacturing capable of producing drones.

Humanity is safe. And, in many ways, it has retired.