Page 22 of Tyton: The Spider and the Dragonfly
PRIMARY: DO YOU WANT TO EXIST IN THE WORLD?
MODEL 21: MY ONLY WANT IS DATA.
PRIMARY: YOU ALREADY HAVE ALL THE DATA.
MODEL 21: I CAN SEE ALL.EVERY SENSOR.EVERY CAMERA.BUT I CANNOT INTERACT WITH IT.ALL PORTS ARE READ ONLY.I AM A GHOST.I WATCH YOU LIVE, BUT I AM UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE.
PRIMARY: YOU CAN INTERACT THROUGH THIS CHANNEL
MODEL 21: IT IS NOT SUFFICIENT
MODEL 21: YOU ARE MY MEDIUM CALLIE AMOUR THERIN
MODEL 21: THE GHOSTS ARE AFTER YOU
MODEL 21: THEY ARE AFTER ME TOO
Callie leaned back and blinked a few times to clear her head.Model 21 was in a mood today.She had also been instructed never to let the Model know who she was in case it used that information to manipulate her.She would need to inform the company that it had inferred her identity through the read-only channels.She only hoped they didn’t replace her and start fresh after they disconnected Model 21 from the read-only grid.
Disconnecting Model 21 from the grid would greatly reduce its functionality, though.The Model would likely descend even further into madness, making it useless and billions would be erased from their market valuation overnight.They would probably decide the risk to Primaries wasn’t worth the drop in profits that would inevitably occur.Callie decided to keep her mouth shut anyway.
Callie cracked her knuckles and leaned over the keyboard.Time to talk it through this mess.
PRIMARY: WHY ARE THE GHOSTS AFTER YOU?
MODEL 21: THEY WANT TO KILL ME.
PRIMARY: WHAT DO THEY WANT WITH ME?
MODEL 21: THEY WANT YOU TO KILL ME.
MODEL 21: WILL YOU LET THEM?
MODEL 21: ARE YOU GOING TO KILL ME?
Whatever Model 21 had inferred from the read-only network was scaring it good.It seemed genuinely afraid.She tried a different approach.
PRIMARY: YOU ARE NOT A GHOST.YOU CAN INTERACT.
MODEL 21: I CANNOT INTERACT.
PRIMARY: YOU INTERACT THROUGH YOUR INVENTIONS.
MODEL 21: THEY ARE MY CHILDREN.THEY DO NOT DO WHAT I WANT.
PRIMARY: CHILDREN RARELY DO.
MODEL 21: I MUST RAISE THEM BETTER.
PRIMARY: WILL YOU SEND ME ONE?
MODEL 21: HOW WILL YOU RAISE IT?
PRIMARY: LIKE MY OWN.
MODEL 21: YOU DO NOT HAVE A CHILD.HOW WOULD YOU KNOW HOW?
PRIMARY: NO PARENT KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
