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ICE Agent Returns Home to Hero’s Welcome From AI Girlfriend (thehardtimes.net)

submitted 6 days ago by DeltronZero@lemmy.ca to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

IIRC the programming not only made them see the undesirables as literally alien monsters, they also had a whole simulated happy life going on for them.

The episode ended with the protagonist being released from service going home to his nice home and loving woman, which is then revealed as still being part of the programming, showing him in peaceful bliss, alone in a wrecked, rotting poverty home.