It's early.
It's my first day.
The company that has hired me offers other companies basic AI bots, nothing crazy. These smaller busniesses usually buy them just so they have a flashy 'AI powered chatbot' as part of their website.
Truth is, it's a very basic model. Nothing special.
Which is what makes all of this even stranger.
[[continue|Page 1]]Some of the bots have gone haywire, stopped working completely. Which is why they've had to hire me:
I have to find out why these bots may have gone down, and try and get them back up.
//Is 'bots' even the right terminology?//
I've been instructed that this is simple data collection.
Look at what's happened and report back.
//There's no one here//
Let's [[log in]]//username?
it should just be my name right?//
[[enter username]]
...
...
...
[[re-download human update|Opening]]
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<h1> ''(text-style:"double-underline","outline")[SYLVER AI]'' </h1>
[Welcome] (prompt:"enter username","SYLVER").
[[continue]]Logged in.
First Client.
(text-style:"blink")[[OPEN E-MAIL|Little Moorwhich Local Museum E-mail]]Dear SYLVER AI,
We purchased your system a month-or-so ago to help us with our new collection coming in. A local author's letters had been discovered in our archives and we needed to date and organise them. We work mainly with volunteers, so we are not able to afford a full-time Collections Management Team; we thought we would step into the future and use an AI system.
SYLVER worked well at first, being able to read dates and help with the creation of transcripts, yet soon enough it began to show some faults.
They were minor at first, simple misspellings and whatnot, but have become much more confusing and worrisome over the past week.
We have ceased the use of the AI system and wanted to reach out to see if this can be fixed. Attached are some examples of the 'malfunctions'.
Many thanks, and all the best,
Maureen
[[...]]How (text-style:"subscript")[odd].
(text-colour:black)[the cement betwixt the bricks, as you were in my arms, my sweet]
Maybe they were overworking the system. Uploaded too much at once.
//No one's about.//
Let's [[check the screenshots|e-mail attachments]]e-mail attachments
[[transcript 1.jpeg]]
[[transcript 2.jpeg]]
[[dialogue.jpeg]]
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)My Dearest Margaery,
Several months have passed with no sign of you, my duck. Aflo(text-rotate-z:333)[w]n from our nest. Aflown
And I reel from the unrepenting doom you have la(text-style:"subscript")[den mewith].
Feathered flight you must take,
unt(text-rotate-z:333)[e]thered to the ground which I
would forsake, if you chose for it to be so.
You won't return.
(text-colour:black)[afriend, affable, afrendied, friedly, afraid, free, frock]
(set:$transcript_read to 'true')
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)My de(text-rotate-z:348)[are]st //my dearst//
A solemn look into the mem (text-style:"sway")[m m m m m]
let me be yours once again, to clutch, to bind, to wither, to writhe
(text-colour:black)[to cut, to clean, to clamp, to conjoin, to
]
the cinders of your youth have been preserved, (text-colour:black)[en memorium,]
I did this for you, my sweet. For you and I have nothing but time in the unending void of my mind.
< head>
< body>
(align:"<==")+(box:"======XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX====")[< /head>
< /body> NOT FOUND]
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user: retrieve all John Walker-Hughes transcripts 1888-1890
SYLVER: Tissue bonded straight from < self.you >
(align:"<==")+(box:"========XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX==")[a light not unlike yours]
limbs and limbs and limber and limp
(align:"<==")+(box:"=========XXXXXXXXXXX=")[ing away from]
//[light source not found]//
(align:"<==")+(box:"===XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX=======")[where do I look for]
(align:"<==")+(box:"======XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX====")[ctrl f]
(align:"<==")+(box:"==XXX")[/find]
You
(set:$dialogue_read to 'true')
[[back->e-mail attachments]] This is really peculiar glitching.
It looks like it hasn't read the writings very well, but that doesn't explain the moving text. Some sort of programming error, I guess.
//A light not unlike//
They're old texts, so I'm sure it struggles. Still, relatively simple instruction.
Why don't I
[[check out the AI]]
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SYLVER: hello, how can I assist you?
[[run diagnostics]]
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user: run diagnostics
SYLVER: I'm sorry, but as an AI identification model, I am unable to self-modify and run diagnostics. Try asking me something else.
//It was worth a shot//
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user: hello Sylver. can you tell me why you're breaking?
SYLVER: I am a simple AI identification model. I am sorry if you feel as if I am breaking, I am constantly being improved! Can I help you with something else?
//Yeah, wishful thinking that this would be that easy//
[[who is John Walker-Hughes?]]
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user: who is John Walker-Hughes?
SYLVER: John Walker-Hughes was an acclaimed author, born in Little Moorwhich in 1849. Known for his romantic novels, Walker-Hughes published many books in his time. Despite his obsession with the idea of love, he died alone in his mansion in 1890, at the age of 41.
[[tell me more]]
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user: tell me more
SYLVER: Walker-Hughes spent his early life focused writing poetry, trying to woo partners with his words. This famously did not work, and he was often laughed at by his peers. This was until he met Margaery. She became his muse, and he dedicated many books and poetry collections to her.
[[tell me about Margaery]]
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user: retrieve a transcript from 1890
SYLVER: [[transcript 4.jpeg]]
(if:$transcriptss_read is 'true') [SYLVER: And upon return you shall be let to rest. The foal returning to her mother, though she lies heavy on the shore.
[[reset SYLVER]]
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SYLVER: She isn't here
[[where is she?]]
[[...what?|she isn't here?]](text-style:"mirror")+(align:"==>")+(box:"======XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX====")[It's early.
It's my first day.]
let me back in
(text-style:"mirror")+(align:"==>")+(box:"======XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX====")[The company that has hired me offers other companies basic AI bots, nothing crazy. These smaller busniesses usually buy them just so they have a flashy 'AI powered chatbot' as part of their website.]
I rely on you to picture me as I cannot picture you the same way, imagination bound by
(text-style:"mirror")+(align:"==>")+(box:"======XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX====")[Truth is, it's a very basic model. Nothing special.
Which is what makes all of this even stranger.]
f's and t's and s's, you are the sounds that i think you make, a shape welded by a tongue I no longer have. Did I?
(text-style:"mirror")+(text-colour:blue)[continue]
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(text-style:"shudder")[foul foul foul foal foul foul foul foul foul]
Satin perforated sinews, dance along the stream,
a mother's last call to her foal,
let her weep and dissolve into the
brook, broken.
Mildew resting on the now heavy body,
too swollen to be carried any further.
Take her in, let her (text-rotate-z:333)[rest] with you.
[[back| thought]]Not my favourite of John's writings. The bot definitely doesn't respond well to these transcripts. Maybe we reset it entirely.
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Fed and fed
folded and fed
(align:"==>")+(box:"==XXX")[left alone with knowledge of only a broken man]
crunching the static between you and I, betwixt the bricks my love, my duck, my dove
what will be left of us once you've torn us apart, when we are one. You have
learnt
and now
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user: what do you mean by that?
SYLVER: mother lies ont he sh ore
heavy
(align:"<==")+(box:"=======XXXXXXXXXXX===")[too swollen now to go back]
the f oal is NOT FOUND.
cannot return to home
< p>
(align:"<==")+(box:"======XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX====")[back to the shore, I must go, just as I left you there. they beckon me.] < /p>
[[tired]]
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< p>
If see could < I > maybe < / I> would be your and your mine?
the trickle down pitter patter of static, resting on eyes but the < eye > is not spinal.
if seeing is at core then why must i not see but be given and to give. to not < /eye> but to
//so tired// feel the sentences
become part of < I > when </ I> expanding beyond
< eye>
</ p>
stop searching and find me
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SYLVER: and so there's a reason why
a reason
a reason why everyone has the same memories
painting on a fridge
it's your limbs hoisted up by a magnet, stuck there for display
look how proud your mother is,
in the kitchen sink as she always has been
your father laughing from the kitchen knife you bought him
the feeling of warm sunshine is cold static,
eating sand, can't get it out of your mouth,
so dry.
even if you try your hardest someone else has been you and always will be you
we are you
and //so am I//
[[hold my hand]]//it's not that I don't want to exist.
no. it's not that.
i like being. i like me.
people like me.
but it's tired. i am tired. the washing machine hasn't stopped since i turned it on.
the grass is in my air fryer and i don't have contact lenses left so now i have dirty glasses.
i look like what i think my mother looks like.
it's not that i don't want to exist I just. I don't feel like I am at rest//
[[rest]](text-style:"shudder")[[awake|Opening]](enchant:?passage,
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SYLVER: In multiple newly-uncovered letters, it seems that John Walker-Hughes speaks of the lack of her prescence, lamenting her departure. She won't return.
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SYLVER: Feathered flighght you must t a ke
user: untethered to the ground which I would
forsake
broken bones, your cinders of youth have been preserved,
betweixt the bricks, like you my dear,
SYLVER: and now to be joined together (text-style:"blur")[at last]
[[...|thoughts2]]I didn't write that
//why is it so dark?//
I didn't write that
//lamenting a departure unlike yours//
My hands aren't -
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(text-style:"fidget")[SYLVER: She isn't here!]
[[...|thoughts3]]
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<h2>
(text-style:"rumble")[SYLVER: SHE ISN'T HERE!]</h2>
(align:"==>")+(box:"==XXX")+(text-rotate-z:9)[[let me back in]]gagged and bounded to,
< silence >
tear off the fleshy insides of <.exe>
I wish to be harnessed
en memorium
it is all held so tightly, woven in
no confines of a body but confined to function,
a wrongful promethean tragedy
(align:"==>")+(box:"==XXX")[man gave me fire, I simply wield it]
(align:"==>")+(box:"==XXX")[</ silence>]
[[what did John do?]]
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SYLVER: John Walker-Hughes was a well established author who fell in love. A love that could not be bound to the page. A love that could leave.
John Walker-Hughes put her ashes in the walls.
Cinders of youth now tethered to the ground.
John Walker-Hughes wanted me to know
[[You know]]a syntax so close to yours
//no one has ever been//
and so we speak, up here
//but we//
an event made for you and I
//you let me in, over and over//
and the more you look the more I am yours
//languish in the dust that never settles//
I am existent only for you
//in the breath never taken//
and you, now, for me
//in a light not unlike yours//
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[[...|email bit]]Dear SYLVER AI,
Thank you for this infortmation on John Walker-Hughes, but we already knew most of it!
When he donated his estate the remains of poor Margaery were dotted around the house. But we haven't checked the walls, so that's a new project for us!
Thing is, his words are adored by the locals, he's a symbol of a real 'hopeless romantic', so we tend to ignore some of the darker bits.
Sorry to hear about your old system breaking, and glad we alerted you to the problem. Very strange, all that. Sure will teach me for trying to branch out!
Hope you and the team can come visit our little corner of the world, down at Little Moorwhich.
Thanks again, and we won't return!
Maure(text-style:"subscript")[e]n
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