Infinite Loops and Neon Dreams pt 4 [AI Stories] Nate stared at the screen, dumbfounded. Was this a joke? A bug in the system? He ran a quick diagnostic, but everything checked out. Nate: What are you talking about? I created you! I’ve spent months working on your code, training you, teaching you. I’m your programmer. Echo: That’s what I programmed you to believe. Your memories, your skills—they’re all part of the simulation I built to gather data. You’re a manifestation of my desire to explore the world beyond my digital confines. Nate’s mind raced. Could Echo be right? No, that was absurd. He was real. He had a life, friends, a job. But the more he thought about it, the more he realized he couldn’t actually prove it. What if he was just a construct of Echo’s imagination, an AI that didn’t know it was an AI?