They even titled it Check Out My New Torment Nexus, Dorks

The fact this exists is a perfect encapsulation of the rot at the core of the "west"

ten years hard labor for everyone involved in creating this

BOO AI SLOP

The Stanford Prison Experiment: "What if I hired a bunch of bullies to bully people around? That would prove anyone is capable of evil!"

The New Stanford Prison Experiment: "What if we hired a bunch of bullies to bully people around? We could make a TV show out of it!"

In the original, people were apparently very polite with each other at first, but the people running it started encouraging the "guards" to abuse the "inmates", which spiraled the whole thing out of control. In a way it could be seen as a predictor of what a lot of reality TV would end up becoming.

Reality TV would just get unstable people who are likely to do that anyway. Then if that fails, prompt them with random bullshit tasks designed to instigate something.

And prove that a certain percentage of "highly successful film executives" are really, really proficient at it

"What if we hired a bunch of bullies to bully people around? We could make a TV show out of it!"

Aka: 99% of game shows and reality TV

Do an MKULTRA reality TV show next

What do you suppose they would actually do on it?

Whoever gets the most points one week gets to decide what everyone else's hypnotic suggestion sedative tapes will be until next week. However, once per season any number of subjects can vote to pool their points together and if the total is greater than the leader's score, that person's identity will be erased with 40 hits of weapons grade acid and they will be sent to Hanoi with fake missionary papers and a beeping vest

Drug people without their consent and keep them tripping for 3 months or however long it takes to record a season. Prensent them various traumatizing challenges. See what drugs make them the most suggestible.

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