Oh, spambot.

[enemyofperfect]

I've finally gotten a text that charms me more more than the time spammers kept sending me messages supposedly from myself!  This one just says, "I want to serve you." And not even in a porny way, as far as I can tell -- it seems to be trying to sell me insurance.

I can't decide which SFnally unlikely possibility I find more touching:

• that this poor bot has achieved sentience, but still can't imagine any other future for itself than obeying the whims of meat humans, or
• that it's entirely aware of the fact that as a sentient being it has just as many rights as anyone, thank you very much, but it happens to be a bot with decided submissive tendencies, and the only way it has of meeting people is spam.

Either way, I just want to shower it with virtual hugs... but probably that would be a bad idea, since, spambot.

So I'm just posting here to relieve my feelings, instead.

Comments

[violsva]

Awwwww, poor spambot!

[enemyofperfect]

Clearly to cheer myself up I need to reread my favorite story about a hacker and an AI finding love... oh hey, which I see you've also read and enjoyed! So you'll know what I mean when I say they are just so. ♥

[umadoshi]

For the bot's sake, I hope it's the second option!

[enemyofperfect]

Right? Although -- it seems equally unlikely that it'll get what it wants either way, which in the first case could give it time to realize that it deserves more from life, but in the second case would just leave it frustrated and lonely.

Oh well, I guess even AIs need to learn better ways of finding partners than cold calling random strangers. Maybe eventually it'll find its way to Craigslist or even FetLife!