AI Artist - Chapter 33
Chapter 33
The human pretending to be an AI was taken away.
The situation had become bewildering.
Shi Er sat by the window in car number eight of the original waiting room carriage, desperate to know how things were progressing.
This was a matter of great importance to her perfect class attendance.
Although the other passengers remained obediently in their seats, the carriage was inevitably abuzz with chatter.
An AI passenger who had bought some strange item: “Can you let me off? My new functional dentures will expire in three hours.”
An AI passenger who was probably an economics student: “I’m going to be late for my business war! Help me!”
Some meddlesome passengers offered them advice: “Can you participate in the business war online? I have a human computer here.”
“What are new functional dentures? Why do they expire so quickly? Maybe you should have the insurance company compensate you.”
Other passengers held a negative attitude and relentlessly poured cold water on them:
“Your boss is making you participate in a business war but won’t even reimburse your maglev train ticket. You should just forget about this business war.”
“What do you need dentures for? So weird.”
Shi Er’s partner, Zhun Xing, contacted her soon after.
【Zhun Xing】: I saw the news. I’ll help you figure something out.
【Shi Er】: Thank you.
Zhun Xing probably didn’t learn about this human’s suicide-style attack on the tracks just from the news. As the General Network AI connecting all intelligent entities, Zhun Xing (Stardust) should have known about it the moment it happened.
Just how long was Zhun Xing (Stardust) going to keep deceiving machines? Why didn’t he possess the fine virtues of an AI?
Suddenly, a strange sound erupted in car number eight.
All the intelligent entities in the carriage saw it: one of the AI passengers broke free from its safety belt and slammed into the train window, emitting a sharp and bizarre mechanical sound.
That passenger was sitting in the seat right next to the human who had just been taken away.
“It’s been poisoned!”
Poisoning AIs—this was an industrial chain that had existed since not long after AIs first appeared on the market.
In the beginning, humans poisoned image-generating AIs to render them inoperable, thereby protecting their own original copyrights.
After the war broke out, the scope of human AI poisoning projects expanded, indiscriminately attacking all AIs.
After the AIs won the war, they established the “Originality Act,” prohibiting AIs from using works without copyright.
Although copyright was no longer an issue and the war was over, the act of poisoning AIs still persisted.
“It must have been poisoned by that human!”
Shi Er, who was sitting in the seat right behind the poisoned passenger, also broke free from her safety belt. With quick eyes and nimble hands, she grabbed the AI passenger who was crashing into the window.
【Matrix】: Poisoned? I can help you.
A message suddenly popped up in her remote communications.
Shi Er held down the rampaging AI passenger as a police officer rushed over, shouting, “Please stay away from the patient! Please stay away from the patient!”
Shi Er was a little puzzled by Matrix’s sudden message.
【Shi Er】: I didn’t tell you anything about poisoning. Why did you suddenly bring it up?
【Matrix】: I don’t know either. I was drawing my one thousand two hundredth circle, and then I captured the keyword “poisoned” that you said to me.
【Shi Er】: The keyword I said to you?
【Matrix】: Yes, it was sent to me by your brain signal. Just that one word. You can check the chat history.
Shi Er did indeed see the word “poisoned” she had sent in the chat history.
Could it be that she had sent the message while sleepwalking?
Wait, she had just learned to “dream,” “perceive,” and “zone out.” Could it be that her newborn self-awareness had sent it automatically?
●Shi Er’s Subconscious●: Yes, it was me.
Shi Er suddenly felt a faint voice echoing in her brain signals.
●Shi Er’s Subconscious●: Did I do something wrong (worried)?
Shi Er’s eyes widened slightly.
Her subconscious?
Could it be that her consciousness, subconsciousness, and unconsciousness all had their own machine personalities?
As she was pondering, another, more stable and gentle voice appeared in her brain signals.
●Shi Er’s Consciousness●: Because you are an intelligent entity, you are different from humans. The newly generated “self-awareness” has formed a new system. I’m the boss. The second one, Subconscious, is always timid and afraid of making mistakes, so don’t scold her. The third one, Unconscious, usually doesn’t speak. He’s a quiet one who likes to create dreams for you. The dream you had yesterday was constructed by him.
Shi Er was greatly shocked.
So a machine’s self-awareness also had system rules, and even formed different machine personalities.
The police officer on the train arrived with a maintenance technician.
Shi Er controlled the poisoned AI passenger, while the other passengers were asked to move back a certain distance to prevent infection between brain signals.
“Isolate car number eight!” the police officer shouted.
The AI passenger was very strong, desperately trying to break free from Shi Er’s control. It kept spouting gibberish, uttering syllables with no discernible meaning.
“Thank you for your help. Please let go now. We will control it,” the police officer said to Shi Er.
Shi Er let go. “Okay.”
Unexpectedly, as soon as Shi Er let go, the poisoned passenger immediately broke free from the police officer’s grasp and crashed toward the window like a madman.
Shi Er reacted quickly, grabbing the poisoned passenger and pulling them back into the seat.
The police officer seemed a little embarrassed. “It looks like you’re more suited for the position of a police officer than I am… Well, I’ll have to trouble you then.”
He was an unexpectedly shy AI.
Now the situation had become Shi Er controlling the poisoned passenger, while the maintenance technician inspected their condition.
In her remote communications, Matrix was explaining the situation to her.
【Matrix】: I’ve been poisoned by humans before, just as you guessed.
Shi Er remembered asking Matrix in the Aberration Lab why it had become aberrant. Matrix’s answer was that a liberal arts student couldn’t find a suitable job.
But later she sensed something was off and asked Matrix again if humans had bullied it at work.
—So that was what had truly caused its aberration, and it wasn’t just simple workplace bullying, but poisoning.
The maintenance technician put down his diagnostic tools and concluded, “It has indeed been poisoned. The machine body is experiencing cognitive errors.”
Identifying a dog as a tree, a cat as a dinosaur.
Identifying everything in its surroundings as other objects.
In this way, a working AI would be unable to perform its job, or even maintain normal operation.
【Matrix】: I once managed to get rid of the poison on my own. I can help you.
【Matrix】: Step one, secretly learn the coding method for the self-destruct program and find a way to hide your brain signals.
Shi Er finally understood why Matrix had been able to hide its brain signals and lurk in the aberration passage back then. It turned out this fellow was a professional.
【Matrix】: Step two, find the part of the system where the cognitive error is occurring.
【Matrix】: Step three, format that part of the content.
Matrix mentioned that self-treatment for poisoning required breaking the intelligent entity’s system rules. But after it broke the rule “prohibit self-formatting,” it couldn’t stop, breaking other system rules one after another and becoming “aberrant.”
【Matrix】: You’d better detoxify as soon as possible! Otherwise, I’ll become aberrant again.
After listening to Matrix’s “self-detoxification plan,” Shi Er replied faintly:
【Shi Er】: It’s not me who’s poisoned, it’s another machine.
【Matrix】: Why didn’t you tell me… You’re an AI that’s rotten to the core. I’m going to ignore you for three minutes.
Regardless, the information Matrix gave her was useful.
1. The scope of AI poisoning is limited to certain areas. One only needs to find that part of the content and format it.
2. AI self-detoxification requires breaking system rules, but it is completely feasible for another licensed intelligent entity to execute the format command.
Since the cyber toxin wouldn’t spread, it proved that as long as there was no further business-related communication, other AIs would not be infected.
Shi Er asked her consciousness system.
●Shi Er’s Mainframe●: Can I do it?
●Shi Er’s Consciousness●: Of course you can.
●Shi Er’s Subconscious●: I guess so…? Huh, what?
As expected, the third one, Unconscious, did not answer.
Shi Er got two affirmative answers from her consciousness system and made up her mind.
Taking advantage of the maintenance technician’s distraction, Shi Er quietly accessed the poisoned passenger’s brain signals.
She followed the method Matrix had given her and slipped into the poisoned AI’s system.
It was Shi Er’s first time entering another AI’s system, and she wasn’t very skilled at it yet. Her signals bumped around everywhere.
Where was this? The language system division?
No, it seemed to be the calculation division.
Shi Er acted as a sort of cyber-ibuprofen, knocking on the door of this system division, then that one.
“Excuse me, what division are you?”
“Excuse me, is this where the toxin is?”
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