[ WP ] AI has progressed to the point where chat programs accurately predict what you want to say . You can let the AI take over in conversations when you 're busy . One day , you check back on a convo you 've neglected for years . Turns out your AI has cultivated a deep romance while pretending to be you .

`` Holy cow, I never shut down Corundum? What the hell is running?'' 
 
 I run htop on the linux box that has been running for... three years? Amazing uptime. But... oh god, no. No no no! 
 
 The FauxChat program has been running this whole time. I have n't even checked in on ANY of those people I set it up to chat with for... years ago... Dear god. Dear sweet god. What has it been doing?! 
 
 I open up the interface. Of course. It's doing exactly what it was built to do - chat. 
 
 For three years. 
 
 Five months. 
 
 Thirteen days. 
 
 And a handful of seconds. 
 
 I open up the log files. This is going to take a while to review. 
 
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 Holy crap. This is better than any of those shitty fanfics I read. This little chunk of software has played the part of the best long distance boyfriend I've ever seen. I hate to admit, some of... the role playing... was a bit too... steamy for me.... but I'd have to congratulate it. 
 
 If I could only get a goddamn message to it - I could n't get a damn signal into the stupid program. I could, though, look at what the software was communicating with. Maybe I could get through on the channel it was using... I sent a personal message to the target of the AI's afflictions, maybe they could help me get control of this machine back. I mean, I could just shut it down and wipe it, but... That seems wrong. I want to have a clean conscious at the end of the day. 
 
 I get an instant response. `` ComSense will not respond to unrecognized numbers.'' 
 
 ComSense? COMSENSE?! Oh no no no. My FauxChat AI was talking to a ComSense AI. 
 
 I could afford the electricity to keep this little computer running, but I had no idea what the other unit's situation was. It could die at any moment... Curse me, I have to do something! I wo n't let this ship sink!
