Editing Artificial Intelligence (section)

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{{Topquote|Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.|The Orange Catholic Bible, ''[[Dune]]''}}

*[[Skub|/SLOP/]]: Threads dedicated entirely to generating images for campaigns or just for fun. They seem to be aware of their quality and what they do, thus the name. However, there's an unspoken agreement on /tg/ that this is a containment thread, because of how contentious AI even is.
*[[Dune]]: Destroyed in the Butlerian Jihad. If you want any big math done, you gotta have a Mentat with you.
*[[Magic: The Gathering]]: MTG pushed the concept to its logical extent within fantasy. There's constructs like [[Karn]], golems, [[scarecrow]]s on [[Lorwyn|Shadowmoor]], and a team of robotic racers in [[Aetherdrift]].
**This is, of course, not talking about the RL applications of AI-generated content for promotions or for interior art - issues stemming from [[Wizards of the Coast]] deciding that they'd rather save money by replacing their artists with Midjourney and then doubling down about it not being AI before apologizing because the rest of their art department quit in protest against such dishonesty.
*[[Shadowrun]]: Features playable AI as a player option.
*[[Star Wars]]: Droids, droids everywhere. Astromech droids, protocol droids, battle droids, bunny droids, you name it. Notable Star Wars and especially the Clone Wars TV show has created the first 'www.npr.org/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493360/clanker-robot-slur-star-wars AI slur' to be widely used with "Clanker" beginning to take root as the preferred preoperative for artificially intelligent systems.
*[[The Culture]]: As previously mentioned, this book series features a decently accurately-portrayed artificial superintelligence in the form of the Minds. Thankfully they're benevolent...so long as you eventually join the Culture and don't try to blow it up.
*[[Warhammer 40,000]]: due to humanity’s collective PTSD from the [[Cybernetic Revolt]] and resultant [[Age of Strife]], the [[Imperium of Man]] loathes '''A'''bominable '''I'''ntelligence, and will destroy one on sight, which is why [[Servitor]]'s exist. This is not lost on the [[Leagues of Votann]], who hide their Ironkin and Votann from the [[Adeptus Mechanicus|AdMech]] brown-nosers. The [[Tau]] Empire's drones are blatantly AI, and since they have no machine spirits, they might be immune to Chaos corruption.
**This is dependent on the Imperium recognizing AIs as AIs. There is a bit of an open question on if powerful "Machine Spirits", are actually AIs.
**[[Chaos]] followers don't shy away from using AIs. Albeit, many still prefer to use [[Servitor]]'s, or to make possessed machinery controlled by demons. "True" AIs and robots are rare - mostly, because of the overabundance of spare humans and spare demons, ''and'' because [[Chaos]] machinery accumulates demons and mutates without even trying; e.g. if they need a technician, they build [[servitor]]s instead of engineering fully robotic minions.
**Typical patron Chaos God of AIs is [[Tzeench]] - since 1) AIs require advanced technologies and programming to make, and can accumilate enormous amounts of data in their databases - and Tzeench is god of arcane knowledge; 2) AIs are associated with Adeptus Mechanicus, Dark Mechanicus and other smart knowledgeable people; 3) AIs are commonly associated with [[Transhumanism#The Singularity|Technological Singularity]], aka ''incomprehensibly fast and vast accelerating '''change''''' - aka exactly what Tzeench stands for. Though in practice, any Chaos God can corrupt AIs.
*[[Xeelee Sequence]]: Some batshit-overpowered AIs live here, because its the fucking Xeelee Sequence (with some even embedded into the subatomic fabric of space-time, stars, or black holes). Special note to the Xeelee's own AI which exists at all points in time simultaneously.