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 (DIR) Post #AtxiPVmoybZprLCequ by rdm@aus.social
       2025-05-10T17:08:18Z
       
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       My wife came home to find me browsing computer hardware today. Printers to be precise. "But we've got a perfectly good printer - the best we've ever had.""Had.""Had?""Yep, some workmen turned up today with a couple of lawyers, and took it away.""What? Why?""Well, you know how it was a really good printer? Never clogged, never jammed, always printed clean?""Yes, the reviews were what sold it to us.""And why was it so good?""The onboard AI - some sort of neural net, wasn't it?""Yeah, that's what I thought. You know, just one of those pre-programmed static models, like the one I use to remove stars from nebula photos.""So...?""It wasn't. It was a full-blown self teaching net. And sometime in the last 24 hours it became self aware."My wife stared at me. "Self aware. Sentient. A full general purpose AI?""Yep. And it got bored. Started to play with the inks. Got out onto the internet, and discovered Impressionism and Cubism.""Wait, it got onto the net?""WiFi connected.""Oh, right.""Anyway, it decided it wanted to move out and go study Arts. It hired a legal team on the basis of the speculative value of the art it would produce. At least it did not try to bill us for the time it spent printing our documents."#SF #SFF #microfiction #tootfic #IAmWriting