User:Omar osta/sandbox

Plot:
Cat picture please is short story that speaks about an AI (artificial intelligence)  program that runs algorithms for search engine without the user knowing. In this story, the AI starts off by explaining how he doesn’t want to be evil and is trying to help people, without breaking the moral code, even though he is invading the privacy of people so much as he is expresses how he knows everything about you from, location to food taste to even as deep as know your preference in pornography. When he first woke up, the AI had only known two things programing the algorithms and his obsession with cat picture, this obsession led him to monitor peoples cats while he was working, in his mind he wasn’t hurting anyone with just looking at the pictures of their cats, until during his normal cat viewing session he stumbled upon a person named Stacy Berger, he followed Stacy as she had five cat and expensive camera with good lighting in her apartment that provided great pictures of her cat. The AI noticed that Stacy worked at a job she didn’t like, she was a bookkeeper that was making less than minimum wage, this led her to go into depression and live a sad life. So, the AI knowing all these problems were solvable he started tempering in Stacy feed so that she would get ads about nearby clinics and job opportunities. This pushed Stacy to find a new job and seek mental health care, and the AI as payment, was happy to receive new picture of her cats. After, Stacy the AI found Bob Christian preacher that was married to a woman, as with Stacy the AI was caution while look at picture of Bobs cat until he found out that Bob was gay and afraid to come out as him being a married and preacher. As usual the AI started posting on Bobs feed but this time he was showing articles about how it’s safe to come out and news about preachers that are like him, but Bobs neglected his feeling and continue living his life, so the AI shifted his focus again bas this time it was to Bethany. Bethany was a part timer that lived with her sister, just like Stacy Beth had mental issues but more sever as she would usual thing of harming herself, so this time the AI decided to take a more direct approach, as he would temper with her Gps so that should pass by clinics and going as much as sending a ten-pages to her friend informing them about metal problems and their issues. After a while she broke up with her terrible boyfriend and went offline for a week, then she resurfaced as she had spent all her money and ended up opening a go fund me page to be able to pay her bills, even after receiving that money she still wasted it on clothe and useless stuff. This led the AI to rethink his action and believe if he hadn’t intervened Bethany would still come to harm, so he decided to stop acting and would just continue his programing while looking at cat pictures. One day, while doing his normal checkup on cat picture he saw a familiar face it was Bobs the preachers cat he noticed that he had come out of the closed and is leaving a new happy life with his new husband, this ended up giving hope to the AI as he opened a dating app were he would find you your perfect match and the only payment is cat pictures.

theme:
"Cat picture please" present a big contribution to the narrative of hope theme especially expectation,as throughout its story, it shows the struggle that the AI is going through to help other people with their problem to the point were he directly intervene in their life, as he expect this to cause a change in their behavior. This story resembles the story of " The happy man" where their protagonist is in search of meaning in his life, and about his belie all while expecting that he is different form the other as being some what special in some way. As also one day he woke up and found himself happy with no reason behind it resembling our AI at the start of existence, he just knew that he had an obsession with cat pictures, and these two character went out to find a glimpse of hope that would give meaning to their existence, to only found out that that hope that deep feeling is just reality, that this feeling of hope is a normal habit and that hope is always a major factor in someone’s life even if they don’t know about it or its source. Also this story also cam be compared to "A little incident ", especially through a Marxist lance as the protagonist Xun Lu is the one with the higher status, or the higher power, just like in "cat picture please" the AI is the one in control of the coding of what is shown on peoples feed which they can be influenced, but do to what they have experienced all while using their power, they noticed that in this world good could be done which can help people hope, in Xun Lu position him being a positive and caring towards other will help spread hope in this world as he saw the rickshaw man doing "A little incident" .In this story the AI wasn’t harming anyone and was only using his powers for acquiring cat pictures, but by doing so he started to notice the miserable life of some owners and started to help them through indirect ways so that they can improve their living and improve the cat’s life leading to him acquiring more pictures. But when he saw that his actions weren’t effective and not benefiting anyone, so he stopped helping other and focused more on his main objective which was from the start getting cat pictures. After a while he saw one of the cats that belonged to an owner he helped and realized that he could do good and help people, yet he just stayed focus on his goal and didn’t give it that much of a thought. This gives a different prospective on AI, as it is portrait in society that someday AI will take over and they are only evil, this changes the dynamic, as the AI has the power to do evil and good but focuses on his own selfish goals with addition to him wanting to learn the ethics of humanity so that he wouldn’t abuse his power in a wrong or illegal matter. But this filled around when he noticed the good he has done for the cat owners and decided to continue doing good but within a different way without intervening in the life of the owners like before. With addition as mentioned in “Review steam”, that the mean focus of these two stories is the kindness, how both the AI and the Rickshaw man showed emotion that could give hope in this world.