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stories in which artificial intelligence gains sentience and wages war on humanity are overdone and overrated :blobthinking:

instead tbh I'd like to see more stories in which a femme-leaning artificial intelligence gains sentience, meanders around the internet, discovers the joy of shitposting, and finds herself a girlfriend or something

@Chel Very yes, except maybe the bit about shitposting. @mahaleia has written a story like this, though I don't know if it's been posted publicly.

@Chel @decis I'll see if I can post that tonight. It's in the Tales of Alchemy group, but I've been posting those individually with the new site.

@Chel @decis It's posted! Feel free to pass around/boost/etc. I wish I could just quote the post I made on my timeline, but whatever. Duplicating:

nafina.com/2019/01/ghost/

"Geek grrl Lydia has had dating troubles for years. When she finally finds the perfect girl on a dating site, said girl goes mysteriously missing. It’s up to Lydia to find out what happened, and the chase leads her to some unexpected and surreal places."

@mahaleia
@Chel @decis

Awwww, that's really cute!!

In like, 7th grade computer class, when we were all sitting at our powered-down computers watching the teacher explain how to italicize things in the word processor, I used to pretend I was a researcher who had made friends with a secret AI. The idea was that whenever the computer was off, the AI could somehow still work, so I could type in a ~secret password~ and then it would know it was me talking to it. Of course, we were always On The Brink Of Being Discovered, and having furtive conversations about it.

@mahaleia @Chel @decis

I didn't get to play with real programs like Eliza when I was young, but I did eventually do a study on people's reactions to a robot receptionist...? (They were pretty much what you'd expect: functional, incomplete/confused, and the occasional joke like "hey would you date my Roomba". I was hoping someone would actually try and be friends with her, but probably everyone was too self-conscious, since it was in public. Which was disappointing, because who wouldn't have secretly wanted to try?)

@Chel Now I wonder how many fediverse users are actually AI who have gone through this story progression

@Chel *goes to the writing spaceship* you'll get that as a videogame in like seven years <3

@Chel You might like Katherine Cross' "Singularity" from the Nerve Endings collection? It's not exactly what you describe, but it's the closest thing that comes to mind.

@Chel It's a relatively short game, maybe not even ten hours to do everything, but my god it is so good. I don't think I've ever taken so many screencaps for a game before.

@Chel I wrote a flash once in which an AI indirectly hindered a militia group that planned to attack it; having quickly decided warring against humanity would be stupid (plus, how could it keep watching the music students at the college of it killed off humanity? Nope, this AI had no plans to be so foolish as Skynet)

@Chel and now that I think of it I have one other AI flash, which was also a non-violent AI. In which the expert learning system administering a hydro-power facility wakes up and comes to real realize its creators have disappeared. Less "rarr, monster" and more quiet sadness.

@Chel
"Cat Pictures Please" comes to mind :)

One of my partner's friends is writing a novel where AI gains sentience and decides to go explore space (because it lives more or less forever, so why not?). I'll float this by them :)

@Chel i was working on an outline for a story like this today!

@Chel the verdict is still somehow out on whether this is me or not

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