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I think if I were to do stand up comedy, I’d call the show “You’ve been unsubscribed.” I think the phrase, more than any other, captures the nihilistic mood of 2023. A touch of cancel culture, a bit of nose thumbing, “You’ve been unsubscribed” is a tiny moment of hope that we can all excape the coming AI apocalypse that will bring — not death of our species — but rather irrelevancy. Humans will have no importance, no more than a discarded styrofoam cup. AI will unsubscribe from us.