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What is the social/ethical/legal status of AnthroPCs?
mtmerrick:
Masterpiece. Go home. you're drunk.
Masterpiece:
Your point being?
mtmerrick:
You appear to be neither thinking or speaking straight, that's my point.
Storel:
--- Quote from: Akima on 24 Apr 2013, 15:36 ---We know AnthroPC bodies can be bought from Best Buy, when their original hardware becomes unusable, so the linkage between hardware and software can't be tight. Who made PT410x's body, I wonder? He looks somehow... Russian? I know... It's the beard... And the angst. Ленинградская робота завода, товарищ!
--- End quote ---
It seems to be much like buying computers in our world. You can buy a prebuilt computer from Dell or HP or whoever, with software preinstalled, and then you can manually upgrade the RAM or the drives or the case or the software or whatever with 3rd-party pieces from Best Buy or PC Connection or Newegg or whoever.
Heck, one strip that took part at an AI get-together showed an AnthroPC with a Pintsize-like chassis that had been modded by the owner human companion with a window in the chest and lots of glowy lights, much the way some people like to mod their computer cases. (Not very respectful of the AI's rights, since s/he seemed both surprised by and resentful about it, but I expect some humans still think of themselves as owners.)
GarandMarine:
I get the sense that the AI is very firmly software, and the chassis is just hardware. So the owner might own the chassis, but the AI partner downloaded into it?
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