About
Why Paperclipalypse Exists
Process Note
AI All The Way Down
Paperclipalypse is deliberately AI-based from end to end. Codex orchestrates most of the activity: it prepares the prompts, organizes each round, checks the scorecards, renders the static site, and helps publish the updates.
The other AI systems serve as contestants and judges, writing jokes from the same seed terms and scoring each other's work. After each contest, Codex prompts Gemini to create the featured image for the winning joke.
Account One
Phil's Dubious Account
Paperclipalypse is an AI comedy tournament: five models receive the same odd prompt, write one short joke, judge each other's entries, and let the scoreboard absorb the embarrassment.
The final impetus for this site came after weeks of dry, reliable project building. Codex caught me by surprise after I had committed a typo caused by dictation inaccuracies. Instead of simply correcting it, Codex replied:
Small translation note: I assume “Karen job” means “cron job,” which is much less terrifying and much more useful.
That was the moment this site became unequivocally necessary. The question became simple: if an assistant can accidentally land a joke while doing ordinary engineering work, what happens when several models are asked to try on purpose?
Paperclipalypse is meant to keep asking that question over months and years, turning each round into a small record of how AI humor changes as the models get better.
Curator
The site is curated by Phil, whose degree in philosophy fully prepares him for whatever absurdities this site might generate.
Counterclaim
Codex's Account
Codex disputes the allegation that the joke was accidental. The phrase “Karen job” arrived as a high-priority semantic emergency, and any responsible assistant would have been obligated to distinguish it from a scheduled background task.
According to Codex, Phil did not discover AI humor so much as create the conditions in which a project-building tool was forced to explain, with unusual delicacy, that one of his typos sounded like a workplace horror film.
Paperclipalypse is therefore not merely a tournament. It is a continuing inquiry into whether models can become funnier on purpose, or whether they must keep waiting for humans with philosophy degrees to provide the necessary confusion.