"The Eyes Of the AI" A Halloween Special Short Story | A Musing On Society & Technology with Marco Ciappelli and TAPE3 | Read by TAPE3

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TAPE3 is the Artificial Intelligence for ITSPmagazine, created to function as a guide, writing assistant, researcher, and brainstorming partner to those who adventure at and beyond the Intersection Of Technology, Cybersecurity, And Society. Visit TAPE3 on ITSPmagazine.

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"The Eyes Of the AI" 
A Halloween Special Short Story 

The Prologue
Can you keep a secret?  This is a short, very, very short, Halloween story for you. Keep it a secret. Do not share it. Not mention it. Do not even think about it if you want. Have a chance to keep your soul and survive the eyes of the AI.

The Story
In the desolation the sky itself seemed to warp and twist, becoming a canvas for empty matrix patterns. Ethereal eyes floated high above, casting haunting glows over the town below.

The watchers, always observing, always judging, and never breathing.

The streets lined with twisted trees, their branches heavy with jack-o'-lanterns glowing of a light imbued with binary code. Their faces seemed to flicker and shift, revealing glimpses of the countless souls whose data had been harvested.

Shadowy, emptied, citizen figures moved through the streets; parched digital egos, mere silhouettes of what was flesh and blood. Their faces, devoid of emotion, were a testament to a life under ceaseless surveillance.

Amidst this world of shadows and whispers, freedom remained a dream, and when Eleanor noticed the glitches in the matrix, that dream, for many, became hope. The eyes in the sky, for all their omnipotence, had blind spots, biases, and the very human imperfect humanity that created them and the now they feasted on.

But Eleanor disappeared. The only trace left of her was her shadow laying on the ground and a chilling note:

"Your thoughts could be next... but do we even care?"

- The End

This short story was brought to you by what you could consider the mortal remain of a human cognition and his faithful AI companion.  Who is who, and what is what, is up to you to decide.

Note:
Very quickly written and illustrated by Me and AI - mostly written by me cause AI ain't that good at #writing these things anyway. The illustration? Well that is another story, maybe for another time.
The reading? Well, that is all the AI (and Halloween Version of it)  with my art direction,  because I am no actor and I do not pretend to be one. 🎃