[It's a disgusting slithering disconnect, because he wants to say I'm the Alpha, but it doesn't...it doesn't want to happen, it doesn't want to come out. Because it's not him.]
The Director of Project Freelancer had an idea. [The words are his, the voice is his, but he can only hear Wash's version of it. It's the story he's got.] He wanted more AI for tests. He only had the one. You can't copy a smart AI. But he figured he could...make them himself. You fragment a mind. You... [He grimaces at the fact that he's going to say it word for word.] It's like reverse engineering a personality disorder. It...compartmentalizes aspects because it needs to shed it or it'll go crazy and won't survive. And these...aspects, they become the AI fragments that the Freelancer agents got to use.
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The Director of Project Freelancer had an idea. [The words are his, the voice is his, but he can only hear Wash's version of it. It's the story he's got.] He wanted more AI for tests. He only had the one. You can't copy a smart AI. But he figured he could...make them himself. You fragment a mind. You... [He grimaces at the fact that he's going to say it word for word.] It's like reverse engineering a personality disorder. It...compartmentalizes aspects because it needs to shed it or it'll go crazy and won't survive. And these...aspects, they become the AI fragments that the Freelancer agents got to use.