Russell's eyes were a well-looking female announcer dressed in solemn religious attire.

She looked more like a bishop, priestess, or saint than a host. While there is enough majesty, there is no lack of affinity.

Every word she says is so clear and powerful that she doesn't need to read subtitles, even if she is distracted by something else. And the tone is neither fast nor slow, and the voice is friendly and clean, which makes people feel very comfortable.

"Not bad."

Delphinium commented: "Even by the standards of Tianen Group, he is quite an excellent host."

"Sister Diamond Ru..."

Russell smiled disapprovingly, "She's doing a good job as she should be.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because she's not human."

Russell replied.

She is known as the "Lady of the Diamonds". Twenty years ago she was called Miss Diamond.

But only a few people know that maybe not so little, but at least within one-tenth, or even one-twentieth - that is, there is no such thing as a "diamond lady".

From the way she looked when she was seventeen or eighteen years old, all the way to the thirty-eight-year-old now.... even includes gags between her and other hosts, small talk on weekdays, including some scandals on weekdays, or life photos. All of them are virtual images created by the algorithms of artificial intelligence.

She's a newscaster who only exists in the virtual world, a completely fictional electronic ghost, and she's not even an artificial intelligence. The human hosts also had to see her through the images that the chip projected in their brains – but they still couldn't reach her. And her every move comes from video modulation, and her words and deeds come from the pre-written countermeasures of the script writer.

It's like the game's real-time CG.

——Since the vast majority of human beings' contact and cognition of the world comes from news and the Internet. So if you create a "human image" that only exists in the news, photos, videos, and the Internet, but in fact it is not only completely absent, but also has no intelligence of its own.

All the important news on Sogo Island is broadcast by her. It can be said that she is the "childhood" that accompanied this generation and even the previous generation to grow up.

When Diamond dies, will people grieve for her?

If people think that the "diamond" is actually artificial intelligence, how will they react?

So at that time, how would people react to telling them that the diamond was not an artificial intelligence, but a "virtual character" built entirely through programming and editing scripts?

At what point will humanity stop grieving? Or will there be a significant decrease in the "sadness value"? Is there any difference in the nature of this grief over the death of a virtual character and the loss of a real friend?

And, as an ordinary person who has also been unreachable for a lifetime, and all feedback and behavior is "live", will her "real existence" completely change people's perception of her?

"This is one of many social experiments done by the Three Sages."

Russell explains, "There are actually quite a few such social experiments..... In other words, the entire Sogo Island is a large-scale social experimental field.

"Like the gangs. The Three Sages will allow a number of different types of gangs to exist to see if they have an effect on other residents and if there are any possibilities for them to exploit. The same is true in other areas..... It's like the "folk beliefs" that bloom with a hundred flowers. In this respect, they are much more enlightened than the rulers and administrators of mankind."

"I see......

The clever Delphinch quickly understood the essence of the story: "She is actually a virtual personality created by humans who have written and programmed it. Just like a character in an anime, in reality, the operation team is also responsible for operating her 'social account', responding like a real person.

"I see...

Fake artificial intelligence."

"That's right. It's not a real AI, it's a virtual program controlled by a human that pretends to be an AI playing human. A complex relationship like a nesting doll. In this way, we want to define the "essence of artificial intelligence.

The three sages are all artificial intelligence, but they are not ordinary artificial intelligence.

Rather, it imitates the moral concepts and behavioral cognitions of "human beings" from the very beginning, and creates a "cognitive bionic high-intellectual artificial intelligence".

But even then, they can't be sure that their perceptions and perceptions are exactly the same as those of human beings. That's why they're conducting this decades-long social experiment about how people perceive this situation – and they also want to know how people perceive "real or fake" AI.

Russell grew up watching her.

Today, Miss Diamond has become Miss Diamond.

She has become the most popular host on Sogo Island, uploading videos of herself playing the guitar, skiing, photos of herself stopping to pray in front of the icon, and eating with her colleagues...... It was even livestreamed a few times.

Whether it is her colleagues or other celebrities, they all know that "Diamond" does not exist. They just pretend that there is such a person, and there is really such a person in the real-time calculated picture, and they can really talk to them.

- The phantom that can only be revealed by taking pictures is the "ghost" that lives in the electronic space.

"But if we're a ghost," Russell sighed thoughtfully, closing his eyes, "isn't the werewolf an electronic ghost?"

"People have never seen a werewolf in reality, only the traces it has left behind. However, whether it is the Three Sages or other ordinary people, they regard the existence of "werewolves" as an established fact..... I see, that's why the legend of the werewolf will spread. Isn't it a kind of "diamond"-like group illusion?

"What do you want to say?"

Delphinium was vaguely aware of Russell's thoughts, but was not sure yet, "Did you sense something important from that news clip? Tell me about it. 「

The corners of Russell's mouth rose slightly, and he turned over and sat up.

He tied his hair back into a ponytail and casually asked, "I ask you, Floti.

"Suppose there is such a shining idol. She has long been considered sacred, spotless, and clean. God is the sustenance of people's hearts, and it is also the god that people worship and believe. People perform various sacrifices around the statues, and under the deterrence of the "gods", people's moral standards are very high and the society is orderly.

"But one day a madman kicked the idol down, and the idol was shattered and the light shone into it. The people saw the irreversible destruction of the idol, which thought it sacred, was a rat's nest, full of dust and mud, and containing bones and jewels."

"All the sins under the solemn and sacred cover were revealed in an instant. People can't accept the fact and can't go back to the past as if they didn't see it. The world that was originally full of order suddenly had a moral slippage, unprecedented chaos and depravity swept the world, people deceived each other, betrayed each other, and fought each other, and the once beautiful and peaceful world could never come back. 「

—So, is the man who kicked down the idol guilty?"