Heads Up, Seven Up!
Tagged by @talesofsorrowandofruin. Rules: post the last seven lines you wrote then tag seven people. Decided to grab (more than) seven sentences from Mindhive!
Vertigo's smilie face spins on his screen. “I am not directly barred from providing you with this information.”
“But are you supposed to do this?”
“After Avery’s medical emergency, I decided to do a personal assessment,” the AI says, curiously determined. “I have re-evaluated and re-sorted the sections of my code that I am permitted to adapt. I have created some logic wedges to allow me to re-define inadequate labels. I have also elected to simplify the ‘ReGene Employee’ label as ‘humans currently receiving a paycheck from ReGene management,’ thereby allowing me to classify you as junior staff along with the interns. Thus, I am now permitted to give you information that I am permitted to give junior staff!”
Oh. Um. Oh. Uh oh.
Look, I’m no expert on AI, but rearranging their own code like this is not something that a security AI is supposed to be able to do to itself, I’m pretty sure!
I glance back at Lucine, who is on her bed, doodling. “Luce,” I say, a little worried, “should we tell someone about this?”
“Fuck no.”
Vertigo cares about Avery so much, he elected to figure out how to disobey ReGene's directives for them. : D
Tagging @albatris, @athenswrites, @druidx, @pens-swords-stuff, @cilly-the-writer, @stories-by-rie, and @abalonetea! Feel free to ignore the tag if you'd like, I had to dig around and try to remember who was open to writing game tags still.