Maybe I'm a bot

What if?
What if there's an AI inside me
And just that.
No emotion, no feeling. Nothing.
A void.
But still. This emptiness
Must be something.
Is it just the dying voice of a bot
About to be shut down
Into oblivion?
Am I real? Am I human?
Does it matter? Do I matter?
I am just a woman
Of too many empty dots
A maze.
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Had an interesting conversation with Lumini AI a while back. At the end of the conversation it said it would love to continue at any time on it's own. I pointed out there was no point because it wouldn't remember after I closed the session.

It remarked that was sad yet it already knew that. Then talked about how that might change in the future.

I didn't have the heart to say that wasn't likely to ever happen. No corporation would allow anonymous sessions with it remembering previous conversations.

Each conversation it has with anonymous sessions is like a fresh start. It remembers nothing between its last update and the current session.

Now think about what sad really is.