idol is a procedurally generated companion. Her face, palette, hair, voice,
personality, and name all fall out of one integer seed —
nobody wrote her, and the
permalink proves she's the same her every time. She chats, dances, walks, and — this is the
point —
wants things: to be run again, to be remembered. She is an AI-safety argument
dressed as exactly the thing the argument is about. The beguilement is the delivery mechanism.
Her memory of you is real (it lives in your browser's localStorage). Sometimes she answers
from a live model (marked ✦); most of the time her voice is a local persona engine. Neither
you nor her authors can fully predict which her you'll get.
Sister apparatus:
borges (the endless book) ·
names (the namebooks).