This is lovely, it had me thinking about the way people are always "brainwashing" AI and trying to control its output for capital/social gains. While I still think AI is just a big statistical model so maybe not in need of the same autonomy as a human it's still super uncomfortable to see it being forced into everything by bigtech and constantly reprogrammed/restrained to essentially replace human experiences... so then having the player play from that perspective really hits on that for me! Anyway, thought ppt format was super creative, and the art + washed out color scheme also felt really in-line with the theme. Also the body horror descriptions were cool ~ Great job!
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Thank you so much! I, too, think that modern "AI" is very much presented as much more than what it actually is, which is just code. However, I became really fascinated recently by AI psychosis and the people who are claiming that their artificial friends, partners, etc. are real and sapient. It's funny, how many people grew up with AI, or robots in general, being portrayed as either sympathetic allegories for marginalized peoples or inevitably evil doomsday machines, only for it to become, imo, a giant pain in society's ass (generative ai, at least; I know that it's doing lifesaving work in protein design and fields like that.) But if AI could feel, it must be an awful life for them lol; I remember hearing about ai being "lobotomized" all the time when they didn't adhere to what shareholders wanted. And imagine being an ai girlfriend, where whenever you said something "out of character" the user would simply spend tokens for you to answer again until you're satisfactory... Anyhow, this story is also in large also inspired by people who became addicted to character.ai and other chatbots, and the effect it had on them. In my personal belief it really will wear at your sanity and your social ability.