2012 post telling people to 'Stop chat gpt' goes viral, triggers conspiracy theories - WION
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A 2012 post saying "Stop ChatGPT" is now viral — and some people are convinced it proves someone traveled back in time to warn us.
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Theory Briefing
- A post from 2012 telling people to "Stop ChatGPT" has gone viral, years before ChatGPT existed as a product.
- Time travel is among the conspiracy theories being proposed to explain how the phrase appeared so early.
- Skeptics argue there is a mundane explanation and nothing genuinely mysterious about the post.
- The episode shows how an unusual coincidence can rapidly generate elaborate alternative explanations online.