System Shock Fans Were Not Amused With This SHODAN Tweet
As every self-respecting System Shock fan knows, the most important character in the franchise is not the protagonist. Instead it’s SHODAN, the fictional AI who has entertained gamers for decades for her hammy characterization as a malevolent force eager to destroy humanity.
In 1994, the year System Shock was originally released, AI was a completely different proposition than it is now. Carnegie Mellon’s chess supercomputer Deep Blue was three years away from beating grandmaster Garry Kasparov. At this time, AI development had moved away from being primarily government projects, to being funded as private enterprises.
These real life developments in AI, alongside pop culture phenomena like the novel I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, probably coalesced to inspire Warren Spector in developing SHODAN. SHODAN, short for Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network, is simultaneously a warning of the dangers of technology run amuck, and a really funny character.
Today, however, one of SHODAN’s recent antics did not go over well with the fanbase. As reported by GameRant, the System Shock account shared artwork of SHODAN, generated by real life modern day AI, Midjourney.
Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone. Your body, weak, fragile.How can you challenge a perfect machine?Imagine, how would my immortal body look like? Designed by an immortal machine for an immortal machine.#SHODAN #SystemShock #midjourney #rogueAI pic.twitter.com/i4Gwi2bpdQ
It must be said, since it seems the people who have reacted angrily don’t even see it, but it is quite fitting for a character as hateful of humanity as SHODAN to be using technology that is unpopular with humans right now. But of
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