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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 2616302" data-attributes="member: 130">"You're a Thuldan?" Lucas says in carefully neutral tones. Eye contact rapidly vanishes again. "Well anyway," he quickly continues, "the swearwords come from a transcription out of a database not on board. It had to have happened during processing with the designers. Otherwise, I've only ever heard her speak Standard.""She's operating to spec," Lucas answers. Am I the only person who can read a technical readout? "Her persona algorithms were built to produce this outcome. It's somebody's idea of interactivity. I wouldn't have designed it that way, but I wasn't consulted on it." "I can turn her off. Toning her down is a programming issue. It's possible, but most of the persona routines are hard-wired so she can't be programmed at will to execute illegal orders, evacuate the atmosphere, overload the mass reactors, or that kind of thing. It would take some work and some digging. That sort of thing isn't in the manual. If we have a few days I might be able to get ahold of one of the designers and make inquiries.""Of course on the extreme end, we can physically remove or destroy the AI board. We should be able to do it, but she'd probably go down fighting. Slightly less extreme, we could power everything down. That would put her into cold storage. Then we yank the board and turn everything back on. The ship should come back online.""I'm not sure to what degree she can modify her own persona. Every AI is different. She's new, so maybe a lot is open to change. We might be able to just ask. But purpose-designed pesona imperatives are harder than asking her to change to color of her holo's hair."Over the course of his long monologue, Lucas's voice picks up speed and confidence again.</blockquote>

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