Chapter 172

The readers expressed their own opinions about this segment, and almost started a fight.

【Brother Hao clearly didn’t mention what he lost (personality). He probably didn’t want Xiao Xi to know and blame herself. Why did Ling Feng have to bring it up…】

【Please, they have to write mission reports after completing tasks. Do you think Brother Hao can hide this?】

【Don’t you dare say anything about my Maomao! He’s not wrong! (Hugging) (Roaring)】

【Ling Feng probably didn’t mention it on purpose, it just came up in conversation. He mentioned that he didn’t lose anything to reassure Xi-bao, and he can’t lie and say Brother Hao didn’t lose anything at all, right? Not only is that unrealistic, but if Xi-bao finds out later, wouldn’t she blame herself even more?】

【Ling Feng didn’t directly say that Brother Hao lost 20% of his personality. Isn’t this just giving Brother Hao the choice of whether to say it or not? It just depends on what Brother Hao says.】

【No, you in the front, you call this giving him a choice? The words were practically handed to him on a silver platter, okay??】

【Brother Hao doesn’t even care, yet you guys almost started a fight. (Wiping sweat)】

【Is this the protagonist group’s fan circle? So terrifying. A slight misstep and a fight breaks out.】

【The key is that two pages ago, Brother Hao said the three of us are one, and on this page, some of you are picking on Ling Feng’s faults. It looks a bit ironic. The three of them are fine!】

【Good thing they’re in 2D. I can’t imagine how sad they would be if they saw you guys’ fighting bullet comments. (Crying emoji)】

Bai Xuechao, who enjoyed watching the drama unfold, thought, they can’t see it? He could read it to them.

Of course, it was just a joke.

In reality, he couldn’t read it to them, as that would completely expose the high-dimensional world.

It was safest for him to be the only one who knew about the existence of the high-dimensional world. If more people knew, the world would surely descend into chaos. Moreover, he had no doubt that if Bai Guzi discovered he had exposed the high-dimensional world, she would directly restart the world.

Xiao 6 saw that Bai Xuechao had been on this page for a long time. After analyzing with its not-so-smart little brain (CPU), it said, “Sigh, this is very common. The manga circle is no different from the fan circle now. People’s love for characters is no less than their love for celebrities. Their passion is off the charts. You haven’t even seen the crazy fans yet. You’ll get used to it.”

Xiao 6 seemed to have misunderstood something.

Bai Xuechao didn’t correct it and took the opportunity to chat with it, “The technology over there is so advanced. Can’t you make a robot with the same appearance as a character, import its personality settings, and then sell it? People who like the character would definitely buy it, right?”

“Eh, in theory, they would, but in reality, someone has tried and failed.” Xiao 6 didn’t realize at all that Bai Xuechao was deliberately talking to it about this and told it everything it could say. “First of all, the character’s image is protected by copyright. Since AI is prohibited from being used in artistic creation, only humans can engage in artistic work. The copyright fees are very high on our side, so the cost of buying the character image copyright to make a robot is very high. Of course, this isn’t the biggest problem. As long as you sell more, you’ll make back the cost.”

“Wait a minute.” Bai Xuechao asked, “AI is prohibited from being used in artistic creation, so what’s the deal with the simulated world?”

Xiao 6 explained, “Sigh, the real creators of the simulated world are humans! Creating the faces, writing the character settings, and perfecting the worldview—all of this is done by the author. Even the manga’s art style was custom-made by Bai Guzi at a high price from a very famous human artist, and then the art style template was imported into the Green River Comic website to complete it.”

“The main system just assists in running the settings written by the author through algorithms. It doesn’t count as creation. At best, it’s a borderline case.” Xiao 6 continued to explain, “If an AI were to come up with a plot and draw a manga on its own, that would be a violation. And for example, writing, making music, choreographing, acting in plays… there are too many!”

“Including the AI-synthesized TV series you saw last time, the script was also written by a human, who then used AI to synthesize the character images and adjust the cinematography… In short, it was still done by humans.”

Finally, Xiao 6 said, “In the high-dimensional world, art belongs to humans. The existence of AI is to help humans work and save time, so that humans can have ample time to create art. If AI were to create art while humans were still working, wouldn’t that be putting the cart before the horse? Besides, the works of art that AI learns from were also created by humans.”

Bai Xuechao thought listlessly that, strictly speaking, his existence was also an AI.

He remembered the bullet comments he had seen in the manga before. When Zhou Chenhao answered a question related to “Po●ket Monsters,” a reader in the bullet comments mentioned that when creating the settings for the simulated world, one could choose the historical background, and the system would perfect the world’s background settings based on the real era. In other words, the works in his world might all exist in the high-dimensional world.

Life was so real that sometimes even he would be in a daze, realizing that the world he lived in was just a work for the entertainment of the high-dimensional world.

He thought of Su Zhao’s words again.

To see a wider world… huh.

As an original background board, Bai Guzi had only written two plot points for his setting—frailness, his identity, and his death date. Everything else, including his name and appearance, was randomized by the main system. In the “protagonist’s” story, he couldn’t even be considered a supporting character.

He had never thought that the world was fake before.

Xiao 6 didn’t know what was going through Bai Xuechao’s mind and continued what it hadn’t finished saying earlier, “Besides the character image copyright, there’s also the character setting copyright. An important problem is that the EQ program created to make AI’s thinking more human-like can currently only run in the simulated world. If this program is abandoned to output the character settings, the character is very prone to character collapse. Robots are very expensive to make and sell. A lot of money was spent to buy one with a collapsed character, so there were a large number of customer complaints.”

Xiao 6 posted a shrugging emoji, “Humans in the high-dimensional world value spiritual value very much, so those that only retained the character’s image but didn’t have a similar personality sold poorly. But those with character settings added had no EQ and their characters collapsed, leading to complaints every day. The customer service couldn’t keep up, and it couldn’t meet the spiritual needs of humans. Over time, no one did this anymore.”

They value spiritual value very much? Bai Xuechao was lost in thought.

After thinking for a moment, he asked Xiao 6 again, “What’s the specific situation with the S-1010 system chip that Bai Guzi promised me?”

“Hehe, let me introduce it to you!” Xiao 6 said, “Actually, the simulated world was created to test the EQ program. It was originally just a small-scale public test, but unexpectedly, the simulated world became popular, so the team started selling it directly to earn research funds. Over the years, more and more users have bought it, and it has become a new trend.”

“As for the S-1010 chip, it’s the result of the simulated world’s testing. According to the latest press conference, it can perfectly run the EQ program, allowing AI to think infinitely close to humans. Of course, other programs can also be loaded, and its functions are very powerful. It can also load all of your data, even ten copies of it would be no problem, its capacity is very large.”

Finally, Xiao 6 posted an emoji of itself holding a bowl to catch its own tears, “The price is predicted to be very expensive online. I’m saving money to get an S-1010 chip, sob sob.”

At this moment, Bai Xuechao stated a chilling fact, “Then in the future, if Bai Guzi doesn’t go back on her word, will I become the first AI to go from virtual to real?”

After all, the only remaining EQ problem in making robots had been solved.

“Ah… it seems so!” Xiao 6 realized belatedly and was greatly shocked. A pair of wide-open eyes appeared in Bai Xuechao’s field of vision. “And with the EQ system, you’ll most likely pass the Turing test with a perfect score of over 95%. You don’t know, the Turing test on our side is very difficult now, and the passing score is 60%.”

If Bai Xuechao could pass the test with a score of over 95%, then in the eyes of humans, he would be no different from a human.

…Would this chip really not be banned?

Xiao 6 exclaimed, “Oh my god, Host!”

“What is it?” Bai Xuechao said.

“If you get rich, don’t forget me!” Xiao 6’s tone was excited. If it weren’t for the fact that it had no hands, it would have wanted to hold Bai Xuechao’s hand. “In the future, when your chip is installed on a simulated robot, remember to come and see me at the Green River Comic website company. I’m in server room number 8, the 6th row, the 6th one. My computer case has a 6 written on it!”

So, was that the origin of Xiao 6’s full name (serial number) 8666?

Bai Xuechao was a little speechless and complained, “What am I going to see, your motherboard and CPU? All the computer cases look about the same, right?”

“Hmph, then I’ll have to exchange for a mechanical body too!” Xiao 6’s soft and sweet voice sounded, saying firmly, “We’ll see each other in the high-dimensional world in the future. I’ll let you see my cute appearance!”

Bai Xuechao didn’t make a promise with Xiao 6, but instead gave it a blow, “You should save up the money to exchange for a body first.”

“Ying.” Xiao 6 whimpered.

Bai Xuechao had already learned the information he wanted to know and said, “Let’s continue reading the manga.”

Xiao 6 immediately held back its tears, “Okay okay, I’m coming to read~”

Because of their chat, Bai Xuechao had stayed on this page for too long, causing all the bullet comments on this page to pop up, filling the entire page.

Bai Xuechao turned the page. The next page started with a picture of Zhou Chenhao scratching his head, probably because he was struggling with how to phrase his words.

Xia Xiaoxi seemed to be in hot pursuit and asked, “Bai Xuechao won, and then what?”

“When we play games, we have to exchange our own things as game coins.” Zhou Chenhao’s hand was still on his hair. He had a wolf cut hairstyle, with his hair slightly longer in the back. After touching his hair, he moved his hand to the back of his neck and said with a smile, “After Bai Xuechao won, he exchanged a small part of my things.”

Xia Xiaoxi’s eyes widened in surprise. She leaned forward, took Zhou Chenhao’s arm to look at it, and then tugged at his tie to look at his neck from left to right.

“Stop looking.” Zhou Chenhao had a helpless expression on his face. “Don’t worry, I’m not missing any arms or legs, nor am I missing any parts.”

Immediately after, in the next panel, Xia Xiaoxi pressed on, “Then what did you lose?”

“Uh.” Zhou Chenhao subconsciously exchanged a glance with Ling Feng, then looked at Xia Xiaoxi and declared, “First of all, I wasn’t forced, I did it voluntarily.”

He continued, “What I lost was 20% of my personality.”

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