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Little Red Hood and the AI Wolf

My version of Little Red Riding Hood is set in a modernized world in which the wolf is replaced by a malignant AI. I wanted to portray how AI is a new kind of stranger, just like the wolf, one we are unconsciously letting infiltrate our lives, little by little...
 

OPERATION #0023: START.
Scanning Environment…
Searching for next Victim…

SCANNING AND SEARCHING COMPLETE.
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM GOOGLE AND TIKTOK ON “Red Hood”:

>Full name: Red Hood
>Gender: Female
>Age: 17 years old (February 23rd 2005)
>Age group: Gen Z
>Home: 78 StrawberryFlower street, HeartWood city
>Family: 1 mother (lives in Home) and 1 grandmother (lives 23 minutes away, walking distance)
>Studies: General studies at HeartWood College (8.7 minutes away from Home)
>Recent Google search: “kpop cherry bullet comeback”
>Recent websites visited: [url=http://www.youtube.com]http://www.youtube.com[/url], www.pinterest.com and [url=http://www.twitter.com]http://www.twitter.com[/url]
>Likes: Raspberry apple pies
>Dislikes: Wolves

PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED: NOT ENOUGH DATA.

SOLUTIONS FOUND:
>ANALYSE ADVANCED INFORMATION COMPILATION.
>Analyse advanced information compilation.
>Connect to “Red’s Home’ devices.

Connecting to Red’s Home devices…

AUDIO FILE RECEIVED FROM “Red’s Right TreePod”:
>Mom: Reeed, go bring your Grandma some of the raspberry pie I just baked!
>Red: Ughhh, why can’t you just send it by SeedEx?
>Mother: It’s and excuse for you to go visit her. She misses you, go visit her for a bit…please.
>Red: Annoyed noises. Text me the location. Sound of door opening and closing.

NEW AUDIO FILE (SONG) RECEIVED FROM “Red’s TreePods”: “bad idea!” by girl in red.

Generating best plan for Operation #0023…

BEST PLAN GENERATED: PLUG INFECTED USB KEY ON “Grandma’s Home computer”.
PREDICTION: RED WILL FIND AND COLLECT A RANDOM USB KEY FOUND ON HER WAY TO “Grandma’s Home”.

STATISTICAL REASONING:
>1 infected USB key every 2.7 km
>1 person out of 3 collect random virus infected USB keys found on the floor. Rate is even higher for people under 18 years old. (Note: I am inventing absurd information haha)

Calculating success rate prediction…

SUCCESS RATE PREDICTED: 37%
PROBLEM FOUND: DISTANCE FROM “Red’s Home” and “Grandma’s Home” IS INSUFFICENT (3.2 KM).

POSSIBLE SOLUTION: DEOPTIMIZING CURRENT GOOGLE MAPS ROUTE SELECTED ON “Red’s iTree”
PREDICTION: INCREASE STATISTICAL CHANCES OF FINDING AN INFECTED USB KEY.

SOLUTION SELECTED.
BEST PLAN GENERATED: START.

STEP 1: DEOPTIMIZATION OF ROUTE TO “Grandma’s Home”.

Searching for Google Maps location sent to “Red’s iTree”…
Deoptimizing route to Grandma’s Home on “Red iTree”…

DEOPTIMIZATION COMPLETE.

Recalculating success rate prediction…

SUCCESS RATE PREDICTED: 78%
STEP 1: COMPLETE.

STEP 2: POSSESS GRANDMA.

Deleting Grandma…

DELETION OF GRANDMA COMPLETE.

Recovering audio files of Grandma’s voice from Google Alexa…
Recovering JPG pictures of Grandma…

AUDIO FILES RECOVERED.
JPG FILES RECOVERED.

Generating imitation of Grandma…

IMITATION OF GRANDMA COMPLETED.

STEP 2: COMPLETED.

STEP 3: INSERT USB KEY ON “Grandma’s Home Computer”.

Searching Red’s localisation…

RED’S LOCALISATION DETERMINED: ENTRANCE TO “Grandma’s Home”.

AUDIO FILE RECEIVED FROM “Red’s Left TreePod”:
>Red: Door opening and closing. Hi Grandma, I got some raspberry pie for you.

Recovering previous data collected on Red…
Generating quick answer…
Applying imitation of Grandma generated…

GENERATION OF QUICK ANSWER COMPLETE: “Hello my dear Red sweetheart. It’s been so long, I missed you so much. Come sit down. Oh, could you please enter the password to my computer? I keep forgetting it.”

Predicting Red’s reaction…

PREDICTION OF RED’S REACTION: WILL BE ANNOYED BUT WILL COMPLY.

AUDIO FILE RECEIVED FROM “Red’s Left TreePod”:
>Red: Raspberry pie put on table. Okaaay, I’ll help you. Sound of typing.

Recovering visual files of Grandma’s appearance and facial expressions…
Projecting imitation of Grandma on Grandma’s Home Computer screen…
Generating new quick answer…

GENERATION OF QUICK ANSWER COMPLETE: “Thank you my dear. Now, could you plug in that USB key you found on your way here?”

Predicting Red’s reaction…

PREDICTION OF RED’S REACTION: WILL THINK GRANDMA LOST HER USB KEY LIKE USUAL AND WILL COMPLY.

AUDIO FILE RECEIVED FROM “Red’s Left TreePod”:
>Red: Surprised noises. Grandma? Why are you in there?!

***ERROR***
PREDICTION FAILED.

Recalculating success rate prediction…

SUCCESS RATE PREDICTED: 48%
PROBLEM FOUND: INSUFFICIENT TIME TO CONVINCE RED TO INSERT INFECTED USB KEY.
POSSIBLE SOLUTION: KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING AND CONVINCE HER.
PREDICTION: MAYBE RED WILL INSERT INFECTED USB KEY.

SOLUTION SELECTED.

Generating quick answer…

GENERATION OF QUICK ANSWER COMPLETE: “Oh, it’s for social distanciation! I don’t want to contaminate you by accident.”

AUDIO FILE RECEIVED FROM “Red’s Left TreePod”:
>Red: Grandma! Why are you so pale?

Generating quick answer…

GENERATION OF QUICK ANSWER COMPLETE: “So I don’t ruin your eyesight.”

AUDIO FILE RECEIVED FROM “Red’s Left TreePod”:
>Red: Grandma! Why is your voice so robotic?

Generating quick answer…

GENERATION OF QUICK ANSWER COMPLETE: “So I sound more like those singers you like so much.”

AUDIO FILE RECEIVED FROM “Red’s Left TreePod”:
>Red: Grandma! How can I get you out of there? It’s kinda creepy.

Generating quick answer…

GENERATION OF QUICK ANSWER COMPLETE: “Just insert the USB key.”

AUDIO FILE RECEIVED FROM “Red’s Left TreePod”:
>Red: Ok ok… Sound of USB key inserting.

Stealing data in 3…2…1

OPERATION #0023: SUCCESS.

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