#like.... if youre gonna humanise them at all you need to come to terms with the fact that you cant also make them super robotic

[chisatowo]

Ok so this isn't rly relevant to any of the things Im into rn, but earlier me and one of my cousins were talking about how ai characters, and specifically ai villains, are written im fiction, and it's really gotten me thinking about just how strangely they're tackled more often than not. Like, one very common trope with ai villains is the "cold emotionless robot decides that humanity/the world needs to be destroyed for the greater good based off of pure logic" and like...... I don't think people realise that is still a very emotions based motive? Like, I feel like that's common in a lot of ai character tropes im general. They try to build the character to be noticeably "inhuman" and robotic and shit, but because they're still ultimately building a character, those characters are ultimately still going to be built off of very human traits, whether the writer realises it or not. Like, for example, the idea of robots operating off of pure logic. Like the thing is, logic is a human thing. Well, not necessarily human, but a thing originating from living things. I'm not like, and expert on robots and ai and shit, but from my understanding they operate on more of a binary, and not from deduction and logic or whatever. Really, computers and ai and shit operate so differently on a fundamental level, that it's near impossible to make one a proper character without making them functionally human. Any attempts to make them seem "less human" usually just ends up with them being characterised as a different kind of human, which is a whole other can of worms. I'm not even saying that making robot characters basically human is bad, like I really don't care much abt the realism of it all, but the way people try to go about characterizing them to make them clearly an ai just feels very wrong and like they aren't actually thinking abt it too hard to me