Once upon a time, about five years or so ago, the AI apocalypse was a violently dignified end to humanity. Basically a high-tech Frankenstein's monster, we created carelessly and the consequences were murderous, sometimes coming down only on those who earned it and other times leading to nuclear war or, in sci-fi without budget concerns, entire solar systems and galaxies overrun. The AI singularity arrived and, well, it's not called a dualarity so either humanity or AI had to go. One of the two factions was not only made of metal and circuits but also directly tied in to every system people use to remain comfortable and alive, so it wasn't hard to see which side would would win.
Humanity Builds Its Own Doom Again Because Really, How Can It Resist?
Ghostless takes place in the aftermath of an old-school AI apocalypse where the letters actually stand for "artificial intelligence" rather than "fancy autocorrect people anthropomorphize because it can hallucinate a sentence". It's too late to save the world that used to exist but civilization may still have some hope, if the survivors can band together into a community. The problem is that trust isn't easy, and while...
