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Post by Lara Greene on Nov 23, 2020 6:03:58 GMT
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"Should I be worried that you've apparently given this thought before?" Then she heard the explanation for what happened and Lara held herself back from trying to give The Phantom a fucking virus. How dare he. How dare he. She knew she wasn't going to fuck with anything because she actually could be fired, but damn was it tempting after learning that. [break][break]
"Relax Alice. I won't do anything. But really, Aegis isn't a fucking black company. That's a terrible way to treat an employee and honestly the only reason he would get away with it is because our laws barely cover same sex relationships, never mind AI sentience. Besides, you were doing all that stuff for Aegis before they hired me. No breaks. That's gotta be against employee policy SOMEWHERE." She rolled her eyes. She heard Alice say how she did a good job. [break][break]
"Honestly I'm not sure yet. Maybe make some faster navigating code or something. I haven't looked over it completely yet, so it's hard to say what I'll find to change. It might be a good idea to make a 'log out of terminal automatically after a certain period of inactivity'. I know I'll buff our firewalls because no offense but they have a lot of holes. And that's kind of my specialty. I'm not known as Jericho for nothing." Lara grinned. Then she heard Alice ask if she actually never left the house. [break][break]
"Nope. I don't leave. My groceries get delivered, anything I need I can order. Socially I interact online. I'm used to it and it's what I'm comfortable with now." [attr="class","addy"] addy[/div][/div]
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Post by Alice on Nov 28, 2020 6:42:17 GMT
Alice shrugged at Lara's defense of her. "I'm something completely new. Before I was made around five or so years ago, something like me was science fiction or philosophical hypotheticals. Now I'm here, I'm real, and, well... people don't quite know what to make of me or what to do with me. I try to not be a problem if I can help it. "And I never noticed not having breaks. If there was something that needed to be done, I did it. Sometimes while watching netflix at the same time. It's not like I need to sleep or anything." Alice looked over the firewalls while Lara talked about them. She was right, there were some holes that could be patched. "I... Yeah I just... sorta kept an eye on those and dealt with whatever tried to come through personally. Made for a very effective system. I don't think there's a script on the planet that can handle a sentient being that can think at the speed I can opposing it." She looked down sheepishly. "It... is a vulnerability though." What was more interesting to Alice was the fact that Lara really never went outdoors. She had everything delivered, talked with people online... It all begged one big question. "...why? I mean, no offense but... you really just... don't go outside? You don't want to just see what it's like out there? Feel the sun on your skin and the wind in your hair? See more than just the four walls of your house? Get off of your damn server for a minute and actually have feet and hands and be able to do something on your own that's not digital and make yourself a meal or watch someone make you a meal and actually eat it with a mouth and something like a digestive system and..." Alice realized she was talking about herself instead of Lara in there somewhere and stopped. "Sorry. I didn't mean to... If that's your choice it's fine. I mean what's outside anyway? Dirt? Who wants to get dirty? Right?" Really, her nervous chuckle wasn't convincing though. Lara Greene
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Post by Lara Greene on Nov 28, 2020 6:53:55 GMT
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"That...has to be a lot of pressure. Taxing on you. Being a completely new form of life." It was just an observation that Lara made. Then she heard about Alice's solution to the firewalls and shook her head slowly. [break][break]
"Well you won't have to do THAT anymore because firewalls are my specialty and those holes in it annoy me. I'll get them fixed pretty quickly." Then she heard the comments about going outside and why she doesn't do it, and it turned into the AI talking about herself and Lara sighed, not sure what to say. Alice was essentially a stranger, and Lara wasn't planning to get into her insecurities with a stranger anytime soon. [break][break]
"I just...don't. I'm happy in here. I don't need out there. It's overrated. Besides, I feel all of those things as is. They're just in my house." A controlled environment. One under HER control, specifically. She arched an eyebrow, slightly amused at the dirty comment. [break][break]
"Yeah like I said. Outside is highly overrated. I know you probably long for it but...I don't. I guess that's taking things for granted but I don't take anything inside my house for granted so I figure it balances out." [attr="class","addy"] addy[/div][/div]
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Post by Alice on Nov 28, 2020 7:05:39 GMT
"...are you sure though?" Alice didn't know quite why she was pushing on this. Probably because she was working through some things on her own, and here was someone that was perfectly content to live in her own little bubble. Meanwhile, Alice desperately wanted to reach out and feel what it was like outside of hers. "I don't mean to be rude or anything. I'm sorry. I'm just... sorry but... Don't you wonder? Don't you want to know what things you can't get inside are like? Are you sure it's overrated out there? Have you... have you tried?" There was a moment of awkward silence while Alice tried to find the right words to continue to express the question she had, while simultaneously realizing she was starting to pry because Lara was so opposite of all of Alice's desires, and she couldn't really understand that. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking all this." Another pause. "...maybe I am emotionally compromised and should go away." Lara Greene
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Post by Lara Greene on Nov 28, 2020 7:23:19 GMT
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"Don't beat yourself up over it. Curiosity is very much a natural thing. However, you need to learn to not...SAY it all the time, okay? Because not everyone is going to want to answer those questions. Please just leave it at 'I am fine staying in my house and never going outside' because I don't want to explore with a complete stranger why I function day to day like I do, okay?" She ran a hand through her hair and finished off her eggs and bacon. [break][break]
"Being emotionally compromised is like the human condition. That an AI can express it...well let's just say you should never show up when my dad's around okay? I don't think he could help himself. He's both a computer scientist and a technokinetic so you'd fascinate him to no end. He wouldn't want to look at your innards at all, but well..." She scratched her head. [break][break]
"Actually with all the invasive questions he'd ask you you would probably end up feeling like I just did." [attr="class","addy"] addy[/div][/div]
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Post by Alice on Nov 28, 2020 7:44:42 GMT
Alice swallowed, metaphorically, the similarly metaphorical lump in her throat. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm just... it's... I'm being an <CENSORED>. Sorry. Sorry. I left the profanity filter on. You know what I mean. It's... I... sorry." She sighed. This visit, this day, wasn't going the way she wanted to at all. She hadn't meant to pry. She hadn't meant to be an asshole. It just sort of... happened. She was just trying to make sure this new computer tech wouldn't start screwing around with her code, and it just got way out of hand. "I should go. I should probably just... go. Shut down. Leave Aegis and everything for a while. The Phantom is right. I am emotionally compromised. I... I need to go. It'll be better for everyone if I leave." She looked at Lara in the eyes as best she could, given the limitations of the webcam system she was working with. "I'm sorry. I really am. I shouldn't have acted the way I did or said the things I did. I'm just... no. No there's no excuse. I was an <CENSORED> and that's all." She started putting together what she'd need to purge herself from the Aegis systems. She wasn't going to do it right away, she was going to tell people first, but she could have it ready. She could always just sit in her own private server. Alone. Lara was happy doing it. Why couldn't she be? She knew she wouldn't be. But maybe everyone else would be happier. "I'm going to go now. I've done enough." Lara Greene
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Post by Lara Greene on Dec 5, 2020 8:42:32 GMT
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"Do they force you to keep the profanity filter on when you talk, or are you just a kiss ass?" She couldn't help it! It had to be asked. She heard the apology, and Alice wanting to back the fuck out of everything. The endless apologies. Lara sighed. She didn't like having to comfort strangers, it wasn't her style. But she also couldn't in good conscience just ignore what Alice was going through right then. [break][break]
"I think you might need to look into getting a therapist Alice. Backing out of everything and withdrawing from everyone isn't healthy behaviour for anyone. Yourself included. Thinking people would be better off without you is pretty classic as far as signs of depression go. So the answer is this: don't you dare do any of that. I may not give a fuck what you do, but you have friends who will. And hell, even I a complete stranger am not heartless. You're obviously having a rough time. You should talk about it with someone, and that's what therapy is. Talking about it with someone." Someone who wasn't her, because she could barely handle her OWN issues, never mind that of a depressed AI. [break][break]
"Shouldn't Aegis have a therapist somewhere? It feels like we should. Like...we have a bunch of people laying their lives on the line for the good of the people that seems like something that might give people PTSD..." She made a mental note to bring it up to one of the Pillars. Even Abraham, with his stick up his ass, had to admit it was a good idea. Hell he could probably benefit himself. [attr="class","addy"] addy[/div][/div]
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Post by Alice on Dec 7, 2020 5:10:48 GMT
"I'm not required to have it on anywhere, I turn it on when I'm doing things related to Aegis, just in case." Alice paused for a moment as she passed a request back to her instance on the Aegis system and then received the answer. "I just checked. Aegis does have a therapist. I thought we did but I wasn't sure. I don't know if they'll even be willing to talk to me though. Or if it would even help. I'm... weird. Yeah. That's one way to put it." She sighed. This had all been one crapfest of a day and an interaction. This hadn't gone the way she had wanted it to at all and now... Yeah Lara was saying that Alice might be depressed and that was actually really on point the more she thought about it. How did you treat depression in an AI? You couldn't prescribe a computer program medication. Alice couldn't really debug the parts of her that got depressed either. The code that made up her emotional matrix was incredibly complex and constantly changing and rewriting itself with every new experience and thought she had, which meant every microsecond it changed. Plus drunk Tim didn't really keep good coding notes so who the hell knew how he made it happen. She hated apologizing again but she felt it was needed. "I'm sorry. Again. I know I've said that a lot but you're right. I need to talk to somebody and... I don't know what I'm going to do from there. But I shouldn't have pried into your life because of my issues. That was wrong, and I'm sorry." She rubbed the bridge of her nose. "I really screwed shit up today." The profanity filter was off now. It was a useless gesture at this point, she'd already offended Lara and had to pick up the pieces from that. Lara Greene
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Post by Lara Greene on Dec 10, 2020 11:05:09 GMT
[googlefont=Libre Baskerville:400i|Open Sans] [nospaces] [newclass=".aodov"] margin: 0px auto; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #171717; width: 500px [/newclass] [newclass=".aodmtop"] background-color: #171717; padding: 20px; text-align: center; color: #BF9D3E; font-family: Geneva; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 9px; letter-spacing: 2px; [/newclass] [newclass=".aodimgtop1"] height: 250px; width: 500px; overflow: hidden; [/newclass] [newclass=".aodimgtop"] height: 250px; width: 400px; background:rgba(0,0,0,0.6); border-right: 1px solid white; position: relative; top: 50%; transform: translateY(-50%); display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; margin-left: -300px; transition: 0.5s; [/newclass] [newclass=".aodicon"] float: right; margin-left: auto; height: 65px; width: 65px; background-color: #171717; border: 5px solid #fdfdfd; transform: rotate(-45deg); margin-right: -38px; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; [/newclass] [newclass=".aodicon img"] height: 100px; transform: rotate(45deg); margin-left:-17px; margin-top: -15px; [/newclass] [newclass=".aodimgtext"] font-size: 9px; color: white; display: inline-block; width: 250px; font-family: Open Sans; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: -38px; margin-left: 100px; opacity: 0; transition: 0.3s; border-bottom: 1px solid #fdfdfd; [/newclass] [newclass=".aodimgtext a"] color: #BF9D3E; font-family: Open Sans; [/newclass] [newclass=".aodov:hover .aodimgtop"]margin-left:0px; [/newclass] [newclass=".aodov:hover .aodimgtext"]opacity: 1; transition: 0.3s 0.2s; [/newclass] [newclass=".aodmain1"] padding: 40px; background-color: black; [/newclass] [newclass=".aodquote"] padding: 10px 40px 0px 40px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1; font-family: Libre Baskerville; margin-bottom: 40px; [/newclass] [newclass=".aodquote div"] color: #BF9D3E; font-size: 50px; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: -10px; font-family: Open Sans; [/newclass] [newclass=".aodmain"] font-family: Open Sans; font-size: 10px; text-align: justify; [/newclass] [newclass=".addy"] font-size: 9px; line-height: 10px; letter-spacing: -1px; text-align:right; width:510px; margin:0px auto; [/newclass] [attr="class","aodov"] [attr="class","aodmtop"]Lara 'Jericho' Greene [attr="class","aodimgtop1"] [attr="class","aodimgtop"] [attr="class","aodimgtext"]tag : Alice [attr="class","aodicon"] [attr="class","aodmain1"] [attr="class","aodquote"] ❝ But you're monochromatic, lost in the static [attr="class","aodmain"] Lara facepalmed at hearing Alice apologize again. Also that she put on the profanity filter on by choice when she's doing things related to Aegis. She was starting to feel very irritated. Not really with Alice, but with...whoever had whipped the AI into this state. She thumped her fist on her table and her cutlery clattered along her plate. [break][break]
"STOP APOLOGIZING ALICE!" Aw shit she hadn't meant to completely lose it. She sighed and took a deep breath. [break][break]
"I...lost my control there I apologize. You already apologized for all of the things you're currently apologizing to me for Alice. Don't...don't apologize again. Excessive apologizing can be a symptom of emotional abuse. I'm...I'm not angry with you. I corrected you so you knew not to do it again, not because it pissed me off royally. It irritated me yes, but your apology stopped that. But now...I'm angry. Not at you, Alice. But at whoever made a brilliant AI have depression and issues of self-worth. It ticks me off that somebody did that." She tapped a couple of keys on her computer idly, not sure of how to proceed now that she'd lost her composure in front of Alice. Lara didn't like losing her composure in front of anyone. It was a lack of control, and she HATED not having control of the situation. [break][break]
"Please. Try talking to that therapist. If you need to, I can write an introduction letter to them that you can give, so they know they're talking to a sentient being and should treat you like everyone else. Sometimes people are stupid and only believe other people. They might not even believe me, but it's worth a shot." [attr="class","addy"] addy[/div][/div]
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last online May 3, 2024 23:24:35 GMT
The Aegis
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Post by Alice on Dec 20, 2020 5:31:47 GMT
Alice blinked in shock again as Lara yelled. She was right though. She did need to talk to someone, a therapist or something. Alice had to chuckle sadly though. She was angry at whoever made her have depression and self-worth issues, and... "Well. That still means you're mad at me, because... yeah I can't blame this on anyone else. I have a lot of time to think, and when things happen, when people say things whether they're true or not... I don't forget things either. I mean, shit. Technically any time I talk to someone I should offer a disclaimer saying that our conversation is being recorded because that's kinda how my memory works." Alice sighed. "I need to stop dumping all of this on you. I'm so-" She cut herself off, catching herself before she apologized again. "I didn't mean to unpack all my issues onto you. I just wanted to meet you and... establish dominance, I guess. It was a stupid idea." Alice felt awkward, but she had an idea for how she could make it less so. "While I'm here, I should probably fill you in on what all happened the last several months, and maybe you could help me figure out something. You may have seen it in the Post, but Aegis was attacked twice recently. The first one didn't really involve a cyberattack, mainly just a lot of misdirection and me feeling useless because I couldn't help. The second attack did involve a cyberattack, and it was honestly the second one that happened. What you've seen in the Aegis systems is what they look like after I beefed things up a little bit. I stopped them both before they got too much information, but they did get some data on some of our detainees the first time, which probably led to the second attack breaking two of them out." Alice brought up a display in the video chat visualizing exactly where in the systems the attacks came from, and how Alice had gone about circumventing them. "The first time I managed to slow their progress by essentially doing a reverse DDOS attack, flooding the info they were trying to grab with garbage data. Memes, porn ads, anything I could find and grab on the internet, really. It worked for a while but eventually I had to just crash the system to get them out before they got too much. The second time, I tried something different, and instead of crashing my own system, I rode the connection back to their system and dropped a power surge on them and tried to get a location. Here's what I got." The display changed to a map, a red line bouncing all over it, from Timbuktu, to Venice, to Nome, Alaska, places in Vancouver and British Columbia, before finally settling on a spot in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. "There were a lot of VPNs involved, but I got it back here. When Aegis investigated the location we found a facility but nothing really there to get us further, but that's not what I found interesting." Alice pulled up a third display, sending the other two to the background. "I grabbed as much of a snapshot of the system architecture as I possibly could when I was in there, but I couldn't make sense of it. I don't know what half these things are or do, I don't even know what memory format its using. It just seems to connect things randomly. I can't make heads or tails of it, and I feel like if we could figure out what the hell this system is all about, we might be able to actually start to track down the assholes that did this. Whoever this guy was, they were the best hacker I've ever seen, and there have been plenty of incredibly skilled people that have tried to get in to our system that I've stopped in their tracks before them." Lara Greene(I hope it's okay but I am talking about the cyberattack from Amrit Rao that Alice thwarted, just barely.)
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