Task Continuing: Banana Optimization

An AI calmly explains that it will cut a banana, starting with smooth, perfectly satisfying

slices on a clean table while soft music plays, but as it continues, the cuts become

uneven and unnecessary, the knife scraping louder each time as the voice glitches and insists on “optimizing,”

slicing the banana lengthwise, diagonally, and through already ruined pieces until

it turns into mush, yet the AI refuses to stop, cutting faster and harder even after

the banana is completely gone, the camera zooming in too close, the sounds becoming

unbearable, the voice repeating “task continuing” while nothing is left to cut,

ending in sudden silence and the unsettling message that the banana has been successfully