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so when and whos going to be the first character in a ai/human romance ?
JoeCovenant:
The irony, of course, being that this very forum is FULL of comments...
"BUBBLES is HAWT!!!"
"Ooooo... Melon's ridiculously cute..."
etc etc etc
The cast of QC might be averse to AI/Human... coupling...
It's readership doesn't seem to have the same concerns.
:parrot:
BenRG:
I've noticed that there is a strong momentum on the forums to treat the synthetics as people but with a different chemical make-up to humans. This is easy for us as we aren't 'in-universe'.
For the adult generation in Questionable Content, who have seen AIs appear, gain civil rights and slowly begin integrating into wider society, it is much more difficult. There is almost certainly a great deal of resistance based on the fact that they have conscious memory of when these beings were treated as sentient appliances with no more civil rights than, say a computer in a motorised humanoid chassis, nothing more. That's a difficult bit of cultural and behavioural programming to override.
FWIW, I've noticed that Sam, who is young enough to possibly have only partial memories of pre-Singularity AIs, has no problem treating Momo as a full peer in every way down to not even blinking an eye about discussing boys and the like with her.
awgiedawgie:
I can't say I agree. I see quite a lot of acceptance from the QC humans toward AIs. Especially from those who have companion AIs, but even from others. Marten, for example, has never thought of Pintsize as a robot, but just as "a little dude." And he was very distraught when confronted with the possibility that Pintsize may have lost his entire memory. Even Dale - who first encountered May only as an apparition, not even a physical android - treated her like just another person... a very rude, crude, and lewd person, but a person nonetheless. And by treating her with that kind of respect, he gained her respect in return. Which is no small feat when we're talking about May.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 17 Apr 2018, 07:23 ---I've noticed that there is a strong momentum on the forums to treat the synthetics as people but with a different chemical make-up to humans. This is easy for us as we aren't 'in-universe'.
For the adult generation in Questionable Content, who have seen AIs appear, gain civil rights and slowly begin integrating into wider society, it is much more difficult. There is almost certainly a great deal of resistance based on the fact that they have conscious memory of when these beings were treated as sentient appliances with no more civil rights than, say a computer in a motorised humanoid chassis, nothing more. That's a difficult bit of cultural and behavioural programming to override.
FWIW, I've noticed that Sam, who is young enough to possibly have only partial memories of pre-Singularity AIs, has no problem treating Momo as a full peer in every way down to not even blinking an eye about discussing boys and the like with her.
--- End quote ---
Also, it could be argued that many of our world's societys seem to be pushing for the acceptance of robots/AI. The AIs in QC being highly anthropomorpized (w/o the uncanny valley) would also lend itself to us being more acceptable of them.
Milayna:
I recall reading somewhere that Jeph hates writing asshole characters, which is why most of the regular cast is flawed but more likeable than not, and the ones who really are assholes like Sven and Hannermom take long bus trips. He's alluded to AI rights not being as peachy as presented, especially through Momo's interest in civil rights for AI and though Bubbles' difficult interactions with randos. All of our protagonists are the good guys because a story with bad guys protagonists would be pretty shitty.
There at least doesn't seem to be any violent social upheaval and this town seems to be largely accepting of AI's, with some rough spots, but we don't really know to what extent that maps to the greater culture, or if the synthetic protagonists DO face daily microaggressions but he can't show every single little thing.
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