You have fullblown OpenAIDS and it isn't even the future yet.


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[FM] OpenAIDS 10

This piece reads like a bittersweet Black Mirror episode mixed with poetic tech dystopia. The concept of OpenAIDS (clearly a play on OpenAI) as a neural interface that mediates and even perfects communication is both fascinating and terrifying. It highlights how reliance on artificial interpretation might flatten or distort authentic human emotion. I especially liked how the story subtly reveals the breakdown of intimacy: Bailey and the narrator have this deep, effortless connection yet it’s artificial, buffered by machines. The Gene Simmons character is a brilliant contrast vibrant, eccentric, analog in a digital world and becomes the turning point that exposes how fragile and easily disrupted the AI-mediated bond really is. The ending lands like a punch: a perfectly simulated smile, but ultimately, a human disconnection.