Dario Amodei’s AI rants accidentally become the hottest ASMR trend for insomniac coders
SAN FRANCISCO — In a bizarre turn of events that even the most advanced neural networks failed to predict, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is now the unlikely savior of sleep-deprived techies everywhere, as his policy-heavy, monotone soliloquies on AI alignment are being repurposed as the latest “disruptive” sleep aid. A viral TikTok compilation titled “POV: Dario Amodei reads the terms of service to put you to sleep” has racked up 12 million views, with fans claiming his deadpan delivery on “scalable oversight” is more effective than melatonin. “I came for the existential dread, but stayed because I passed out by the second slide on reward hacking,” said user @SleeplessInSiliconValley. The trend, dubbed “Amodei ASMR,” has spawned a cottage industry of bootleg audio loops, leaving SF coffee shops eerily quiet as newly rested engineers debate whether this is a form of ironic homage or the ultimate sign of AI fatigue.