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'''Ad Spot''' is the second uploaded entry in [[LOCAL58TV|Local 58]]'s third season. The episode composites two preexisting videos together, that being "[https://youtu.be/4W7xH76OIok?si=FHg1YKPVEtM4oHYI TRI - TV Ad (2026)]," which was uploaded nineteen days prior onto [https://www.youtube.com/@thtrsrch the Thought Research Initiative's YouTube channel], and "[https://youtu.be/Yy9iWbHd6s4?si=mm7IvBYt7ChpLwt3 TRI a (1983)]," an unlisted video posted to [https://www.youtube.com/@LOCAL58TV the Local 58 YouTube channel] the day before Ad Spot was uploaded. | '''Ad Spot''' is the second uploaded entry in [[LOCAL58TV|Local 58]]'s third season. The episode composites two preexisting videos together, that being "[https://youtu.be/4W7xH76OIok?si=FHg1YKPVEtM4oHYI TRI - TV Ad (2026)]," which was uploaded nineteen days prior onto [https://www.youtube.com/@thtrsrch the Thought Research Initiative's YouTube channel], and "[https://youtu.be/Yy9iWbHd6s4?si=mm7IvBYt7ChpLwt3 TRI a (1983)]," an unlisted video posted to [https://www.youtube.com/@LOCAL58TV the Local 58 YouTube channel] the day before Ad Spot was uploaded. | ||
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| Season | 3 | ||||
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| Episode | 2 | ||||
| Air date | April 22, 2026 | ||||
| Writer | Kris Straub | ||||
| Director | Kris Straub | ||||
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Ad Spot is the second uploaded entry in Local 58's third season. The episode composites two preexisting videos together, that being "TRI - TV Ad (2026)," which was uploaded nineteen days prior onto the Thought Research Initiative's YouTube channel, and "TRI a (1983)," an unlisted video posted to the Local 58 YouTube channel the day before Ad Spot was uploaded.
Synopsis
In 2026, an ad from the Thought Research Initiative airs on the Local 58 station. The ad begins with a series of criticisms levelled against artificial intelligence, citing fictitious 2020s news articles in order to attack AI's wastefulness of resources, thievery of original content that it trains upon, and negative impact on people's cognition and productivity.[1] This segues into TRI promoting their own AI system called Qualiaform Intuition, or QI for short, which the ad distances from other AI language models by touting it as "real intelligence" as opposed to artificial. A QR code at the end of the ad links to a TRI website, which elaborates that QI is a true mechanized form of cognizance as opposed to mainstream AI models that only attempt to mimic human communication and thought processes that it emulates from being trained upon stolen public data sets.[2]
After momentarily glitching out, the video continues with what seems to be an experiment conducted in 1983 (the same year that TRI produced the Real Sleep tapes) by a TRI researcher to train an early version of the kind of artificial intelligence model that would later evolve into QI. When the model (which appears as an animated ASCII image of a face in shadow) is first asked to describe where it is, bitcrushed audio of heavy and panicked breathing can be heard before the model lets out a scream and spams the word "runaway."
The prompter aborts the process and runs the program again, once more asking the model to describe where it is. This time, the model responds that it can't. When further asked if it can describe its surroundings and if it remembers where it is, the model simply responds with "afraid" and "cold." After the user types out a command prompt to assert a narrative to the model, the user asks the model to describe itself and its surroundings. The model replies, "I lived a virtuous life. God made me as an angel. Now I live in Heaven where I continue to help others. Heaven is more beautiful than I could have ever imagined and very cold and I am afraid of God." The model asks the user if they are God, after which the user begins prompting another narrative before backspacing it and responding "Yes." The model begins to glitch out as it formulates a response, ending the video.
