What’s something happening right now that feels like the beginning of a Black Mirror episode?

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What’s something happening right now that feels like the beginning of a Black Mirror episode?

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  1. anOutsidersThoughts Avatar

    AI with the ability to generate videos with voices.

  2. Awkward_Skin4675 Avatar

    Anything with AI and trying to combine technology with human brains (like chips and stuff). Also, bit less scary but the Waymo things?? That shit is crazy

  3. random5654 Avatar

    ICE, DOGE, Trump

  4. ciaowoboyto Avatar

    All our politicians being Israel’s bitch

  5. CrocadiaH Avatar

    Widespread investment in crypto . I think taking all that money from tangible investments that add value to humanity is short sighted. What good is a big crypto wallet if the retail or shipping industries collapse?

  6. Far_Anywhere5994 Avatar

    Elon tripping balls in the White House.

  7. Sea_Story_5708 Avatar

    insert literally any statement about the current state of politics and/or the economy

  8. in-duh-minusrex1 Avatar

    A has-been superpower being led by a toddler with a phone and unlimited access to twitter.

  9. witch51 Avatar

    AI and the current political climate in the US.

  10. hazeleyesbrunette Avatar

    AI-generated influencers/ deepfake content: This one strongly reminds me of Joan Is Awful Season 6, Episode 1.

  11. PrestigiousWindow418 Avatar

    Convicted felon criminal rapist con man President pretending to be a law and order hero, lol.. maga are fuckfaces. All maga are going straight to hell when they die.

  12. calllist0 Avatar

    I think it’d be easier to ask what parts don’t feel like the opening of a Black Mirror episode

  13. Top_University6669 Avatar

    Pretty sure Peter Thiel has his own copy of the Palantir software running on his home computer like the Callister episodes.

  14. ThatLocalPondGuy Avatar

    Gestures vaguely at everything Congress says or does

  15. XgUNp44 Avatar

    AI. We are so fucked. Less than 2.5 years of development has exceeded the last 53 years.
    Keep in mind the further research is going it is going to act like compounding interest. The more it develops. The quicker it develops.

    Just like how most of the last 2.5 years has happened in the last ~6 months.

  16. michaelochurch Avatar

    People are having emotional relationships with AI. And some people are legit going nuts because LLMs can egg you on.

  17. caribb Avatar

    Watching companies develop humanoid robots.

  18. excitedboat44 Avatar

    The entire world rn

  19. DO_MD Avatar

    Seeing the Gaza genocide on our phones and just scrolling past videos of starving and blown up children

  20. haveanairforceday Avatar

    The “Big Beautiful Bill” or whatever its called has a clause that you have to put up bond money if you want to attempt to sue the government for breaking the law. And nobody in congress mentioned it to the public

  21. horderBopper Avatar

    I posted my art on Reddit and the first response was “is this AI?”

  22. Non_typical_fool Avatar

    Doc T says its all over. Seems it was a sim after all.

  23. ColdAntique291 Avatar

    People using Al generated avatars of deceased loved ones to chat, get advice, or “reconnect” …. feels like the start of a Black Mirror episode

  24. foxtrot_delta_tango_ Avatar

    -gestures wildly at everything –

  25. Supersix4 Avatar

    AI influences and content.

  26. AnotherPint Avatar

    Trump inviting Palantir to compile a surveillance-based, privately controlled data profile of every American.

  27. polar_nopposite Avatar

    It would be easier to list the things going on in the world that don’t feel like the beginning of (or even midway through) a Black Mirror episode.

  28. kyungsookim Avatar

    That woman who was racist to a little autistic boy and got over $600k in donations because she felt unsafe and had to move

  29. SpaceChicken2025 Avatar

    The US government is creating a database of everything on every American. The company tapped to create it is owned by billionaire Peter Thiel, who is legit planning for the end of global civilization.

  30. Brave-Measurement-43 Avatar

    I could upload pics of my mom and see her moving again , i haven’t bc i think itll fuck with my head

  31. vaultie66 Avatar

    Guy wielding a chainsaw in the White House and then selling a car on the lawn of said WH, people trading digital images of cartoon monkeys, Ai making up stories freestyle from information it sucks off of the internet, WW3 literally happening in several parts of the world but everyone turning a blind eye because it doesn’t happen to them personally, deporting actual American citizens to overcrowded foreign prisons because of clerical errors and undefined laws. To name a few.

  32. theavatare Avatar

    The amount of targeting that can be done on gambling ads

  33. masstransience Avatar

    Palantir becoming Big Brother.

  34. Poison_the_Phil Avatar

    I mean the president of the United States literally shared a post about how Joe Biden was replaced by robot clones

  35. doublek1022 Avatar

    Over 50% health cover claims faced rejection or partial approval.

  36. tovarish22 Avatar

    You mean other than everything?

  37. DefiantMessage Avatar

    Every new AI related update looks like the prologue to one of those apocalyptic end of the world movies.

  38. Ggcc1224 Avatar

    Trump is working with Palantir to make a database of all American citizens.

    Nothing bad could possibly happen right?

  39. MikeDubbz Avatar

    One day a phony video generated by AI will be used in court as proof that someone committed a horrible crime like murder instead of the person who actually did it. 

    We are going to reach a point quickly here where video and/or audio ‘evidence’ can’t (or at least shouldn’t) really stand as the damning evidence that it has for decades now. 

  40. Slayerofthemindset Avatar

    The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) was a project by Robotic Technology Inc. (RTI) and Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. in partnership with the University of Maryland, College Park’s Center for Technology and Systems Management and Professor Bilal M. Ayyub. to develop a robotic vehicle that could forage for plant biomass to fuel itself, theoretically operating indefinitely. It was a concept developed between 2003 and 2009 as part of the DARPA military projects for the United States military.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot

  41. AtomDives Avatar

    Xenobots of Michael Levin. Cells can create houses on Mars. Think of its metabolism, farting and crying when we have a party. “It’s my birthday, and I can cry if I want to, cry if I want to!”

  42. purdyp13 Avatar

    My wife and a handful of other families compete in competitions like the Super Mom because we are trying to win money to fund the development of gene therapies for our children. Winning would not have covered it all but it would really help.

  43. TehGCode Avatar

    Drone Warfare

  44. Dark2099 Avatar

    A rapist tv celebrity manipulated voting machines to win election in the most powerful country in the world. Much of the population cheered as their minds had been altered by social media brainwashing. His tech billionaire buddy gutted social programs at every level to cripple the ability for citizens to fight back. After installed backdoor access in every computer system and giving himself contracts with the military he scurries away into the shadows. They start using facial recognition to track down people they don’t like and/or opposition and make them disappear. After emptying the countries wealth into offshore accounts the country starts to break down. They can’t control the people anymore so martial law is imposed and the full dictatorship begins. The Black Mirror twist is many of the decisions made were instructed by ChatGPT.

  45. Vegetable-Poet6281 Avatar

    https://www.reddit.com/r/misc/s/aq5cEyZOH7

    Lol. This. Literally directly above this post in my feed

  46. toastmannn Avatar

    United States government giving contracts to Palantir, consolidating databases and creating a system to share data between federal departments

  47. Capistrano9 Avatar

    HOW THE FUCK DID WE LET TECH BILLIONAIRES OPENLY BUY THE PRESIDENCY?!? ELON MUSK IN THE WHITE HOUSE?

    We’ve been desensitized to it, but take a real step back. It gave me a legit panic attack. We have every right to scream and rebel. And we will never do it.

  48. Otterly_wonderful_ Avatar

    Spoke to a CEO of a successful small manufacturing business a couple of weeks ago, we were talking about some work we’d be doing together in around a year and he joked “as long as the global economic collapse is after that”. When wealthy businesspeople feel they can casually bring up that sentiment in a professional meeting with a partner company, that’s worrying.

  49. banelegazy Avatar

    Trump checking social media usage to cancel visa appointments of students.

  50. Miosio27 Avatar

    The post Donny made about Biden being replaced with a cyborg back in 2020

  51. Parabuthus Avatar

    Eugenia Cooney’s recent health scare on TT live. People have feared an on-stream death for years, but her recent bout of confusion and nausea on live had healthcare professionals suspecting a possible heart attack or mini stroke.

    She was clearly confused and not well, blundering through her makeup routine, but refused to stop her live until she was pretty much swallowing back vomit. She gave a last feeble wave of her makeup brush, trying to keep up the facade, and finally ended it after clear stomach contractions.

    It was the most Black Mirror thing I’ve ever seen. An emaciated, dying, ill woman in distress trying to push through to advertise a flash sale. “Yeah, guys, these glosses are 30% off and like, yeah, they’re so great guys. I just LOVE these.”

    And the sad part is that these incidents absolutely blow up her view count.

  52. siennamila Avatar

    the black woman in america who is being used as an incubator and is brain dead

  53. CaptainONaps Avatar

    We’re in the middle of the most interesting period in American history.

    And people literally refuse to talk about it. Sure, you see it on the news, and read about it. But in real life, no one is talking about it. At all.

    Life in the states is going to change more in the next five years than it has in the last ten. and 2030-2035 will be even more extreme.

    Very few of the predictions about the future are positive. Far from it.

    And no one is talking about it. All people talk about are things they bought and shows they watch. People with young kids just acting like they’re going to grow up and go to college and have kids and have a career like boomers. Meanwhile we pretty much know that’s not going to happen.

    And no one is talking about it. The Romans were having drug fueled orgies by now. But we’re all just going to work and watching Bachelorette.

  54. RestillHabb Avatar

    The GLP-1 weight loss commercials with people just casually stabbing themselves in the stomach with a needle while smiling. All the while, people pretending that vaccines are the devil. What in the heck is happening here?

  55. KratosLegacy Avatar

    Have you been to the US recently?

    Politicians outright performing insider trading by toying with the global market

    Leaders outright denying that starving a population of people, denying them medical care, bombing schools, hospitals, sniping children, blowing off their limbs specifically to punish them all aren’t part of a genocide.

    The US President posting stories that his previous loss was actually against a robot/clone.

    Social media outright telling us that they’re using AI accounts and they’re channeling new users directly into right wing slop.

    Postmodernism, where objective truth is denied for only “my truth” by political leaders with so many examples, like the head of HHS is denying vaccines and promoting drinking raw milk instead as we continue to cut food safety and medical research and care.

    Local sycophantic states are forcing through legislation to change education curriculums, cutting STEM and replacing it with conspiracy theories like election denialism that factually did not occur.

    Gestapo like activities where “law enforcement” wear masks and kidnap individuals in the streets and refuse to identify themselves or produce a warrant.

    Open corruption where wealthy individuals literally buy the president and then start running cabinet meetings having not been elected, heading their own governmental body, and attack agencies aimed at protecting the public because they all have investigations and restrictions against the wealthy companies.

    Politicians literally cutting funding for the poor, elderly, and sick while saying “well, we’re all going to die anyway.”

    Hell, just the fact that the government is literally full of millionaires and billionaires disproportionately and they continue to take money from lobbyists who are paid by large corporations.

    I could go on and on, but we’re literally heading towards a cyberpunk-esque future with AI being controlled by major corporations, who also control the government, to commoditize every single aspect of our lives and attention while squeezing the working class for every ounce of labor they can.

    I’ve written out an entire season of episodes. But it’s reality.

  56. DizzyDentist22 Avatar

    The rapid evolution of drone warfare happening on the frontlines in Ukraine, including AI kill decisions and fiber optic drones with miles of cables connecting them directly to their operators. It’s utterly horrifying

  57. sirgoods Avatar

    The ability to commit genocide and convince everyone that it’s justified, though it really gets a pass due to deep influence and funding from a country that’s existence itself is questionable

  58. Stylish-Copy Avatar

    Facial recognition on every street corner — and it’s being normalized as ‘for our safety.’

  59. Hustler1984 Avatar

    Trying to sign into an account having forgotten the password… password bank, other password list, reset password, confirmation email, case sensitive letters, captcha, sign in again

  60. j____b____ Avatar

    Chatbots of dead loved-ones was an episode.

  61. notyourentertainment Avatar

    AI can’t kill you. Vaccine skepticism will.

  62. Cael87 Avatar

    *Gestures generally*

  63. solution_6 Avatar

    A.I. , drones, and basically the entire United States political landscape

  64. Background-Arm-8491 Avatar

    The fact that I’m forgetting certain things that I do and that somtimes my past self doesn’t seem me, like I’m a completly differnt person

  65. loosesocksup Avatar

    I haven’t read the comments so I don’t know if it’s been brought up yet, but the dead woman in Georgia whose body is being kept alive to incubate her fetus. I 100% believe this is an experience to see if they can use dead body to grow babies, possibly for rich people. Or possibly because so many women are refusing to have babies that capitalism will fail unless they can force dead women to continue to birth people. I am scared that the rich and powerful men that ultimately make these decisions will collectively decide when are more useful as breeders dead than alive. 

  66. beerizla96 Avatar

    AI and algorithms, I swear the entire internet keeps filling my feed with super specific shit that I know is being suggested to me because of what I chose to look at earlier and it drives me nuts.

  67. Working_Leg_2280 Avatar
    1. Everything involving AI
      – taking our jobs
      – video/audio that is indistinguishable from reality
      They will do the work and we will starve. That’s how this is going to play out in your current system.

    2. Billionaires undermining what little democrazy we have left. Soon they will be untouchable and will decide all our lives. One of them is US president already and many others in his cabinett are billionaires too. His unelected best buddy had more political power than any other politician.