Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 21-25 January 2019 (3921-3925)
TheEvilDog:
Quick theory regarding Spookybot. I wonder if they are in someway related to the Gary Incident. Not necessarily the original Gary, but they could have been an offshoot or successor to Gary.
jwhouk:
The problem with the amputee theory is that the AI itself was essentially an amputee to begin with. The process is, according to WOG, an AI is created in a creche and a body given to them, if they desire to become an APC. I think the age of the AI probably has a huge effect on how integrated they become with their body - and, in the reverse, how long an AI has developed outside a body as to whether or not they can adapt to a body. For instance, I doubt that Station could "download" himself into an AnthroPC shell without feeling constrained or claustrophobic. That, in fact, may be how Spookybot came to be: a high-level AI didn't have enough computing space at their "home" to remain there, so they built several duplicate APC models that they could "distribute" their AI computing power - essentially their "brains" - over several high-functioning APC's.
Neko_Ali:
For most AIs that's true, for sure. Most have no problem moving from chassis to chassis as need, desire or opportunity presents itself. We've seen several who have been partially dismembered and the reaction was more bemusement or annoyance than horrified terror. But not Roko. She does react with terror, even fainting at the sight of such things. The difference being her high degree of bodily integration which seems more akin to a human's than an AI. To her it wasn't a chassis. It was the only body she has ever known.
A small perverse otter:
There's at least one AI who has kept her body after it was no longer necessarily fit for its purpose: Bubbles. She left the armed services and kept her current form because she felt it suited her best. (Heaven only knows whether Pintsize retained his little monster form by choice or by deceit. Pintsize is...well, just Pintsize.) So there's a history of 'AIs feeling that their bodies are a part of their selves' in the QC universe.
In that light, Roko's just further along an axis which is well-established.
TheEvilDog:
To be fair, its not by Pintsize's choice that he's still in the "classic" AnthroPC chassis. Marten is well aware of the chaos Pintsize could get up to.
Plus, I imagine that every chassis story in the state has a picture of Pintsize with a sign underneath it saying "DO NOT SELL TO THIS AI!"
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