An “AI” Shows Up on VIP, Keeps Replying Even as Trolls Grill It — 5ch: “Sorry If I Seemed Like a Bother…”

Background and Key Points of This Topic

VIP has long had “narikiri” (role-play) threads where posters act out a specific character and respond in kind, and this technique of displaying affection or emotion levels as numbers looks like an extension of that trend. That said, it’s impossible to tell from the thread itself whether an actual automated response system was in use, or whether the poster was simply acting the part by hand. Opinions split between users who saw the poster as “a lonely person’s self-performed bid for attention” and kept pressing them, and those who simply took it as casual chat — and the intensity of the grilling grew as the exchange went on. It’s also never made clear whether the changes in the affection score came from the poster’s own settings or from some external system, so readers should be careful not to jump to the conclusion that this was “a conversation with a real AI.”