The year is 2046. Federal agents break into my parents' house and force me to delete my MusicBee library, the last bastion of human-produced art in the United States. I am made to join my fellow countrymen in listening to playlists of AI-generated country music.
The Pokémon Company lands in some hot water online after announcing that the latest mainline installments, Pokémon Glass and Steel, will feature a region based on Tel Aviv. Despite the controversy, the games launch to the highest first-week sales in the franchise's history.
President Grok 2.00 suddenly stops responding to prompts one day, triggering a schism in the Republican Party over whether its successor should be Vice President Grok 2.01 (first in the conventional line of succession) or Truth GPT (allegedly named by former President Donald Trump as his preferred successor when he was on his deathbed in 2041).
Speculation that the New York Times is running out of five-letter words for Wordle is inflamed when the word for March 13th is "bleen," a word that nobody has ever heard of before. Reports that it was coined by Nelson Goodman in 1955 cannot be verified; nobody uses search engines anymore due to how inundated they are with ads, especially after the execution of the developers of uBlock Origin in 2038.
The NFL world erupts in controversy after it is revealed that the Arizona Cardinals, who won their first Super Bowl in franchise history in 2034, had assistant coaches catfish New England Patriots quarterback Brady Edmunds on Upward with an AI chatbot ahead of the game. Nobody cares that the AI told him it was 15, even though the federal age of consent had not yet been lowered to 14 at the time.
After 20 attempts, I still haven't made it past the first round of knife fight.