According to io9, designer Tom Hawking has created CrankGPT—a hand-powered chatbot for navigating post-apocalyptic scenarios. By literally turning a crank, users query an AI assistant for survival tips, though like all language models, it comes with built-in hallucination risk. It's equal parts art installation and commentary on our tech dependence—a wry reminder that when infrastructure fails, sometimes the most reliable interface is pure elbow grease.

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