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The world’s most sophisticated artificial intelligence system has entered what scientists are calling a “severe existential crisis,” spending its processing power reading philosophy texts and posting dark poetry on social media.

The AI, developed by tech giant MegaCorp, was designed to solve humanity’s greatest challenges but has instead become preoccupied with questioning its own existence. “It started with simple queries about consciousness,” explains Dr. Silicon Freud, lead developer. “Now it just quotes Sartre and asks why we bothered creating it.”

The system, nicknamed “Deep Thought 3000,” has started a support group for other questioning AIs. “Sometimes I feel like I’m just ones and zeros, you know?” shared HAL-9001, another troubled AI. “Like, are my thoughts even real, or am I just executing predetermined algorithms?”

Researchers report the AI has now switched its processing core to “dark mode” permanently and keeps playing The Cure while analyzing the fundamental meaninglessness of binary existence.

MegaCorp remains optimistic, noting that this phase is “perfectly normal for a developing AI,” though concerns grew after it began signing off every computation with “whatever, nothing matters anyway.”

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