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.