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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

This has been a joke since before anything resembling the modern "AI" boom. Basically since murderous future AI was a think in popular media, at least since Terminator if not earlier. People would joke about treating their appliances kindly so that "Skynet" won't kill them in the future.