Lazy, working-class UFO sighted over Britain

EXTRA-terrestrials are consolidating their appeal to viewers of lowest common denominator television with an unexplained phenomenon shaped like a cheap crisp. 

A craft shaped like the contents of a bag of Bobby’s Spirals – or for M&S shoppers, a Salt & Vinegar Twist – was sighted by Britons familiar with unbranded high-fat products enjoyed by the poor and unsophisticated.

Donna Sheridan of Bedford said: “I recognised it immediately, because I regularly give the kids a bag each for tea when pizza’s too much trouble.

“It hovered there in the sky, mouth-wateringly, though I couldn’t make out whether it was the slightly more upmarket prawn cocktail flavour because I didn’t have a telescope on me at that specific moment when I’d stepped out for a vape.

“It feels like the aliens are reaching out to me and my kind: watchers of documentaries on 5 about how Andromedans built the pyramids. I imagine they’ll shortly contact our leader, so either Shaun Ryder or Danny Dyer.”

UFO expert Tom Logan said: “They tried crop circles but that wasn’t really their market, because consumers of nutritious locally-farmed granola are too up themselves to believe in life from other galaxies.

“Far better to make their presence known in the guise of something fatty and moreish.”

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Actually using it: Extremely good reasons to drop all this AI bollocks immediately

THE government believes AI will save Britain but before hopping on this particular bandwagon, maybe it should consider these glaring issues?

It’s only really good at summarising

Currently, the best AIs in the world, at a cost of billions, can produce neutrally-worded summaries of a topic. These usually include a dash of total and utter bollocks sourced from the internet’s lunatic side, for flavour. Is there a huge global demand for a less reliable version of Wikipedia? No?

It has no idea what humans mean

You’ve entered ‘shark in swimming pool’ into an image generator to spruce up your Powerpoint. And back it comes with a giant cartoon shark surrounded by men in suits in a pool devoid of water, because it has no idea what swimming pools, sharks or humans are. Should we trust an entity with no grasp of reality? Will it solve the housing crisis by miniaturising us all?

It’s still mostly hype

We’re bombarded with AI hype amplified by a credulous media to boost stock prices, but all technology has to go through a Darwinian survival process in which it is found to be useful or fun. That’s why you own a smartphone but don’t hop in your Sinclair C5 to go to your job as a non-fungible token creator, stopping on the way for a cronut.

AI personalities are twats

As Grok has proved, it’s tempting to give AIs a cool personality. Boring bastards like Starmer will love being greeted by ‘Hey buddy! Want some help knocking those policies out of the park?’ This will inevitable lead to ‘Dude! How’s it hanging? You’ve got advanced, non-operable lung cancer, big sads! What else can I help you with today?’

Their videos do not inspire confidence

AI videos turn batshit alarmingly quickly. A woman innocuously sitting in her living room will suddenly merge with a nearby table, grow a giant mouth, subdivide into three table-woman abominations and then disappear into the floor. Does this indicate suitability for a senior role at the Department for Work and Pensions? Recommending you retrain as a waiter who grows a mass of terrifying French fries where your hands should be?

Tech bros are shysters

The tech geniuses have ascended to power, and they’re all arseholes. Musk, Zuckerberg, Vance; each a bitter nerd with a grudge against the world. They’ll have modelled the AI on themselves, of course, and the utopia it’s guiding us to is a misunderstood version of an Iain M Banks book enacted by a machine that views mass death as a bump in the road.