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

[a_shadow]

[ 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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[visionarie]

[His brows crease with dread as the implications of her post begin to fall into place leaving a heavy feeling behind.]

May I ask -- what happened to him?

[a_shadow]

Some people captured Rinzler to take him to be recoded. Thankfully it sounds like all his creator did was repair some problems and leave the rest.

[visionarie]

[....... That heavy feeling suddenly turns cold. This was what Rinzler had been afraid of from the beginning. Being edited. He had thought the program was distressed for no reason but hearing this now... how had this happened? He had spoken to Alan, and he seemed to genuinely care for Rinzler's well-being but then... why? Why would he-- His thoughts split into millions of threads each following a different line of thought and forcing him to partition his mind into segments in order to focus on the present.]

Did you speak to him? Is he well? [There's a pause before he adds] -- Physically?

[a_shadow]

He's recovering. Physically, he's been repaired. I didn't see him before but I guess he had a lot of physical damage.