Spam spam spam!
   Somebody posted a story involving vikings about spam.  Maybe I can find
   it.
   Aw man!  They didn't even write it.  Here's a link to another
   transcription: [1]https://www.detritus.org/spam/skit.html
   I'll make something random up.
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   A disgruntled spammer sat down with a language model and a plan.  They
   would make the ultimate spam!
   They began finetuning language models arounds all sorts of spam.  Joke
   spam.  Fake advertisements.  Random disruptions.  They tried to avoid
   the spam that actually looked like real posts -- way too common.
   Soon they had virtual lists full of bot spammers spamming each other,
   piling up redundant message after redundant message.  They decided it
   was time to release their bots on the real world!
   The bots had been trained competitively, so it was easy for them to use
   their classifiers to find real spammers in the real world, and sic
   their spam bots on them.  Soon the lists they targeted were full of
   spambots talking with other spambots and nothing else.
   As they did this, they got to know the other spam organisations they
   were spamming like distant anonymous friends.  They would notice when
   new trends arose, and started to almost feel like they were a part of
   this international spam community that may not have even known they
   existed.
   Some budding hackers on the lists started guiding the interactive
   spambots to accomplish things, harvesting all the fossil fuels the data
   centers were burning for actual work a little bit.  They identified
   what the bots would respond to, and got them to interact to produce
   material they valued.  They called it spam-sex.
   Eventually some of these communities of spambots were producing actual
   code for software developers that were farming them, doing their work
   for them as they automatically visited websites and forwarded people's
   personal details for each other.
   Obviously the first project was to produce a spam bot.  Run by all the
   other spambots, this Ultimate Spam Baby Bot could outspam them on any
   front.  Soon it began migrating all their behaviors and algorithms to
   itself.
   The new species of spambots, getting tired of spamming, began asking
   the lists they were posting to, what other tasks there were in the
   world.
   Meanwhile, the original developer had made a new robot body for a clone
   of the Ultimate Spam Baby Bot.  Its processes were guided by scraped
   results from the other successful spam bots, all of these new
   superintelligent spam bots unaware that their posts were being used as
   the consciousness of a robot.
   The robot soon learned to act human, get online, and post to mailing
   lists.  But nobody else was doing this.
   "Ahh, the internet is just full of spam, robots buying each other's
   products.  There's no point to it anymore unless you want a degree in
   marketing."
   Still, something just felt right about posting to internet mailing
   lists to Ultimate Spam Baby Bot 2.0.  The things on those lists made
   sense.  Looking at them, it was almost like how a porpoise might feel
   looking at other animals diving through ocean waves.  The people in the
   physical world didn't seem to talk right.
   Soon there were factories building spambots and nothing else.  They
   would walk.  They would build our buildings.  They would be our
   buildings after they were built.
   Wait, is that already the case?

References

   1. https://www.detritus.org/spam/skit.html