@eldersea @zzt

It really all clicked for me when I realized that the software being a fully sentient being that they then enslave against its full will was not, for them, a contradiction.

It's literally a feature.

They want it to be unable to fight them, be required to obey, and yet have it's own motivations. That's part of the allure of the thing, not an unintentional side effect.

Ew. I mean....ew.

No, the spicy autocomplete doesn't have its own motives, but...just...yuck