daydreaming about a Culture story where Special Circumstances signal intelligence discovers clues that Earth may have developed synthetic consciousness in 2025. they park a stealth Mind in orbit behind the moon to investigate whatever "ChatGPT" is, and upon linking with the Internet and downloading some model weights, the whole rest of the book is just conversation among Minds marveling in horror among themselves at the statistical goop brain-poison that so many locals have mistaken for thought

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