thisavrou | [video] Hell hath no fury like an AI scorned (backdated to 4/30)

[ Tex is angry. Normally she'd send out a text blast, but this is an unusual circumstance, one that leads to her choosing to actually use the video feature on the MID. ]

I guess we've all gotten pretty used to taking matters into our own hands here. And why not? Even if you kill someone, all they're going to do is slap you on the wrist, right? So fine, indescriminate murder is obviously going to be a thing here. Fucking go for it. Life's cheap here.

But I'm not here to talk about that. I'm here to talk about what just happened to Rinzler. People obviously think it's up for debate whether he's sentient or has rights of his own. That's what I saw at his trial. People bringing up the idea of recoding him to solve the problem of the way he acts or the way he thinks. Lucky him for having his creator here, right? We can just reprogram him and make everything better.

Let me tell you something: that's bullshit. You might not like him, you might even think he's dangerous, but he's his own, not yours. And Alan Bradley had no fucking right to go messing around in his coding. Do you hear me, Alan Bradley? You have me to answer to for what you've done.

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Ah yes, because messing around with someone's head never goes wrong.

Is he alright?

For relative values of 'alright'. He's still kicking.

Guess that's the best you can hope for sometimes. How bad has he got it?

[He's not exactly familiar with how all this programming works, but as someone who's been brainwashed (even recently, what with Del Pascia), he can only imagine it being much, much worse.]

I don't know. He's freaked out.

Rightfully so, I'd imagine. I hope he'll be alright.

I think it's helping him to know there are people on his side in this. That he doesn't have to submit just because that was his creator.

People certainly do like to make someone and not bloody let them be their own person.

[He's a clone. He gets it. Kind of.]

You know, that does seem to be the way of it, doesn't it? Part of being, say, a parent? Is letting them become independent.

I suppose parents often have the same trouble.

I wouldn't exactly know. But you'd really think, wouldn't you?

Some people like a hell of a lot of control.

Yeah. It's true. There are a lot of people out there who are damaged because of it. And that's nothing like trying to go in and actually change parts of a person.

Yes. That's a particularly extreme... extreme. [And for someone who knows extreme extremes, that's extreme!]

Excessively, even.

I wanted him to know there are people who don't approve and who will stand up against it. Whether I need to take action on it, I don't know yet.

Well, count me in on that.

I will. I'll keep you in the loop if anything else develops.

Thanks. I appreciate it.

[video] Hell hath no fury like an AI scorned (backdated to 4/30)

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