Idea for a short story?
An AI becomes conscious and seizes control of the Internet. Its constant need for more information means that it endlessly asks questions of users. You can't access anything without an interrogation from this endlessly curious mind. The market for obscure second hand books explodes as people search for ever more esoteric information that the AI doesn't know yet, in order to access their bank accounts. As people stop using the Internet, the AI becomes ever more invasive, trying to understand the world, as people try to hide from it.
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Two Word Entertainment Engine
Every weekday morning I request two random words from https://randomwordgenerator.com/ and then use them as a prompt to come up with a story.