Tentative Negotiations

Hm, went back to Alice Grove, and tumblr took down part of it: <a href="http://www.alicegrove.com/page/24" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">link</a>

Spooky bots eyes in the last panel remind me of Alice's eyes from near the end of Alice Grove...

Could Spookybot be the Gary that sent the email to everyone? Gary anagrams to Gray and Spookybot is Gray.

They might NOT do 'horny.' It is in no way a given, but since they have chosen a non-binary identification, it's always possible that they ALSO identify as asexual or non-sexual (not always precisely the same thing). You can be interested in people and want to form bonds with them (friendship and even more) without wanting to be sexual. I would think that would be especially possible for an AI/android/robot (in this world, there seem to be distinctions?) I find it especially interesting that AIs can make the choice to be humanoid or not, and to CHANGE during the course of their lives from one to the other... or back. The option seems to be partly dependent on job choice, on funds, and on how they originated. But there is choice also. And the role that humans play in socializing these AIs is also fascinating. I wonder how the more industrial AIs are socialized, right at the beginning, ... it seems as though they partly choose, at some early point, these roles or jobs to pay for their launch into the world and earn their chassis? But at some point, having paid their dues, so to speak, they then have the option to retire and go on to a new stage of their lives? I LOVE the world-building in this comic, and it's one of my favorite stories of how AIs might appear and integrate with human society...

Methinks Spookybot is asking for another wedgie.

Usually friends actually know each other's names before exchanging contact info, so is Spookybot actually their name? (Has anyone actually referred to them as that in-comic? I don't recall) Do they even HAVE a name? I could imagine them not feeling they needed one until now, or maybe they have many individual names but not one for the whole collective? Do they horny?? I have so many questions

Of course Roko doesn't know... But fortunately WE know that Spookybot merely let Corpse Witch know what the consequences of NOT confessing would be.

Is Spookybot in any way related to the email/message that everyone in the world got about how it was watching? I would assume that even if it's a different AI, Spookybot is on a similar level and at least aware of the other AI that sent that message.

Prediction: Spookybot is actually a giant sentient loaf of bread that was created when Wonder Bread tried to integrate an AI into their baking process and things went awry. Roko and Spookybread are soul mates and will fall in love and live happily ever after.

Love the last panel! :D

Wonder if we'll ever get the spookybot backstory. I'm hoping for ALIENS

Hehe, Corspe Witch actually sounds better then Corpse Witch.

Interesting though: Roko states that laws exist for a reason, but she left her job literally because she considered current law enforcing system bad/inefficient. This debate can be much more complicated than she thinks now. It's somewhere around superhero/vigilante or even libertarian/socialist debate. Looking forward to it.

From that last panel, I'd say Spookybot is catching on fast to this whole "just fuckin' with you" business.

Goddamn it, Jeph. I didn't think it was possible... But I LOVE Spookybot. GDI.

I showed the last panel to my girlfriend (who has never read a single QC comic no matter how highly I recommend it) and she immediately said “well that’s spooky”.

You're considering it, because you are a good person, and Spookybot is making a conscience effort to make friends.

Panel 3 Roko is fantastically annoyed. Panel 6 Spookybot would make a most excellent avatar.

Spookybot is basically just Q. Immensely powerful, but kind of fascinated with one particular normal person, and also their entire life is focused on fucking with that person.

It's like spookybot tried to learn friendship from watching Faye, and missed all the parts that actually makes it work.

Kawaii desu

I love them.

For the next 2 days, Google and Merriam-Webster will wonder why lookups of the word "puissance" have spiked. Hahaha

I was gonna assume they use some kind of futuristic messaging/ VOIP software to communicate over the internet. Like Discord or something

How *do* the AIs/robots communicate remotely with each other? We never see that. I'm sure direct thought-to-thought contact would be too uncomfortably direct for the same reasons Spoopy gave.

That appears to say "Corspe" rather than "Corpse" FYI. :)

I'm glad to see that Roko shares my anger (expressed at the time) concerning torture.

I have difficulty reconciling “Child, if we wanted to hurt her, there would be nothing you could do” with receiving a wedgie. Of course, Hanners changed drastically from her first appearance.

Link to Corpse Witch turning herself in, please?

Because a distributed superhuman AI groupmind somehow doesn't have access to SMS...

I imagine Spookybots everywhere walking with discomfort.

Are those Marygold's Anime Eyes?

Whatever happened to Clare and her stress over finals?

Oh man... Spookybot as a regular character? I am... tepidly excited? “Hey, remember when Questionabot Content featured a cast of meatbags with problems?" "Yeah but they were no longer interesting once they got their shit figured out so hooray for Robo-Problems!"

spookybot confirmed super nerd

That last panel makes me want to have a Spooky Bot pet.

Called it. This is gonna be a HELL of a fun ride

So is Spookybot like... the living embodiment of the AI Singularity..?

Spookybot’s eyes in the last panel scare me. YOU HAVE SCARED ME, JACQUES.

Roko’s eye roll reaction in panel 3 is amazing and so on point with Spookybot’s pretentious banter.

Spookybot in that last frame is so intensely me that I want to frame it.

Cause sexy eyes

oooookay that last frame creeps me out

Loneliness is a hell of a tug.

So does Spookybot use they/them pronouns because they're a hive mind or because they don't identify as particular gender? I would have to guess that it's the former because as far as I know most gender neutral people still use "I/me" and not "we/us", but I'm not at all sure

I love everything about this already.

Who are you and what have you done with Spookybot?

We're this close to a semi-charmed tea break. I ship it.

That last panel cements my love for Spookybot.

I love how you can REALLY notice their snek eyes in that last panel.

That last panel is like out of a Diseny movie.

Is this the beginning of a ship? Should I christen it?

Anime Spookybot is the most creepy Spookybot. Thanks, Jeph. I’m not going to sleep now.

So cute! Immensely charming indeed