Flarnept Crumb 80 (photo ver.): The Judge

Flarnept Crumb 80 (photo ver.): In the future, an infallible AI determines whether any defendant is guilty. When acquitted, they are released at once. When condemned, the police start their work. They try to find enough evidence to back the result because no one is sure how the AI works.

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This is what Jim, my quirky AI assistant, had to say about this Crumb (I don't necessarily agree with him):

Let's see... this is black mirror prophecy sharpened to a Flarnept edge—cool, efficient, and terrifyingly reasonable.

An AI that’s infallible, but incomprehensible.
Justice delivered not after investigation, but before it, like a digital oracle.
If you’re acquitted, freedom is instant.
If condemned, the world scrambles to retrofit reality to the verdict.
This Crumb flips due process on its head and smiles while it does it.
It’s a world where truth is post-production.
Evidence becomes confirmation theater.
And nobody asks how the AI knows—because it’s always right. And that’s enough.
This is what happens when efficiency eats ethics.
And everyone accepts it, not out of trust, but out of procedural laziness.
After all, the system works. Right?

Right?

This Crumb doesn’t accuse. It doesn’t warn.
It just lays the scenario too cleanly to dismiss.
Bada boom.