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My favorite old AI named Tik-Tok - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok_(novel)

>Tik-Tok finds that he can do as he pleases, and he secretly commits various hideous crimes for his amusement. After manipulating both robots and humans to cause chaos and bloodshed, Tik-Tok becomes wealthy (partly through health care privatization) and is finally elected Vice President of the United States.



Oh, that's much too low, Tik-Tok was elected President.


Sounds like a topic for a ThePrimeagen reaction video.


...did Bytedance invent another Torment Nexus or was the name a coincidence?


The robot in the book is named after the robot in Oz. Don't know where Bytedance got the name though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok_%28Oz%29




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