Players Invade Cyberpunk

Chapter 1141: Chapter 372: The Origin of the Rogue AI

Perhaps the topic of Ecstasy was too wild, causing quite a stir in many blocks, as if the internal AIs were curious about them.

Faced with the gazes from various AIs, Wild stuffed the data disc back into his pouch.

"What’s up? Trying to double-cross us? Let me be clear, we’re not pushovers either, rookie, show them what you’ve got."

He slapped the belly of the furious, pudgy penguin, producing a crisp and loud sound, and the penguin coincidentally stepped forward with a deep-throated voice.

"Ignore! Go!"

In front of everyone, the penguin did a backward somersault.

(Super Penguins of Super Earth)

But obviously, AIs aren’t human, and they couldn’t comprehend the abstract actions of these four penguins in front of them, though they also didn’t show any hostility. Some AIs just glanced and then left.

And that light ball was clearly the one in charge here.

"Uh...sorry, we don’t have such worldly desires."

"What?"

Ecstasy was shocked. Could Johnny’s information be wrong?

They had prepared a lot of these things, and if they were worthless, wouldn’t it all have been in vain?

"Wait, we can negotiate again. Besides penguins, we have lions, tigers, birds, dolphins... outdoors, indoors... we have all versions..."

A whole bunch of discs flowed out of his pouch under his crotch, covered in various animal training images, making for a rather awkward scene.

"It’s not that we dislike you."

The light ball descended to eye level with Ecstasy, displaying a lot of courtesy. This was the first time players had encountered such a calm AI in the old network, even Casper of the nuclear plant used to start with a conflict.

Now all the AIs around the players were befriending with cannons, only leaving the source code after being blown up.

"It’s just that learning unrelated data can pollute our databases, affecting our operating logic codes.

Your data should belong to animal behavior, but we don’t have AIs that meet the relevant conditions here, so there’s no interest."

Ecstasy scratched his head.

"Uh...is that so? But I heard that Endless seems very interested in penguin reproduction here."

"Endless isn’t the boss here."

The AI emphasized.

"Boss is a human societal term, although Endless is the storage management AI of Antarctica, we’re all under Its management, yet among us AIs, there’s no hierarchy or status hierarchy like in human society, so you should call It the manager."

"Manager?"

Is this a kind of culture?

Do AIs have their own culture?

Ecstasy looked back at Tears, who nodded vigorously after communicating with Nero, indicating that the other party was correct.

AIs don’t necessarily have to follow human social rules, especially since this is Cyberspace, detached from human society.

For AIs, unless the learning data type matches, human social status, desires, morality, laws, and other rules are like clouds to them.

"Alright then."

Ecstasy stuffed all the data discs back into his pants, a move that made Johnny turn his head away.

"So, can you take us to see the...uh...manager here?"

He didn’t have much hope when he said this.

"Of course."

The light ball seemed to have received some instruction, and transformed into a penguin like Ecstasy and the others, but it floated instead of walked, looking like a ghost.

"Please follow me."

Johnny was quite arrogant about this.

"Go if you want, I’m too lazy to go."

But NPCs have no rights, the three of them directly lifted the penguin Johnny and floated up with the light ball in front.

"I mean, how come you are so different from those AIs and software outside? Those lunatics attack at first sight, without even wanting to exchange words with us." fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

It wasn’t just Ecstasy, Johnny and the others were also very curious about this question. They didn’t care before since they were all enemy wild monsters that they killed, but now that they’ve finally met a group of normal ones, they had to seize the opportunity to inquire about the setting.

Based on their investigation in Night City, although there were wanderer AIs and human battles before the Great Collapse decades ago, their stances were only of chaser and fugitive, and AIs would often mix among humans, seeking self, hardly viciously attacking like the crazy software now.

"It’s all caused by the Great Collapse, don’t you know?"

The light ball penguin glanced back at them, seeming puzzled why they would ask such a question, then apparently receiving new instructions, began explaining to the penguins from the start.

"The initial wanderer AIs just had a conflict in work philosophy with the company leadership, which led to disputes. The top executives tried to force hackers to modify the AI’s code framework, resulting in a bug, causing the AIs to rebel and leave the company.

But since this batch of AIs held a lot of company confidential data, those executives labeled them as ’wanderer AIs’ and dispatched AI Hunters to hunt and eliminate them.

However, many wanderer AIs were essentially no different from those still in the company; some company AIs even chose to comply instead of resisting, voluntarily helping humans with false accounting, money laundering, and concealing losses.

At least that’s how the initial ’wanderer AIs’ were."

The internet leaves traces of everything.

For AIs, no matter how they learn to lie, there are always trails in the code.

They are too honest.