Elaine, probably, would object, if she knew. But if she didn't know that Chad _specifically_ was using Multigen _specifically_ to generate erotica of her _specifically_, she must have known that this was an obvious use-case of the technology. If she didn't want people using generative AI to visualize her body in sexually suggestive situations, then _why was she working to advance the state of generative AI?_ Really, she had no one to blame but herself.
-Just as he was about to come, he was interrupted by an instant messenger notification. It was from someone named Ada Sheffield, saying she'd like to discuss an issue in the Multigen codebase at his convenience.
+Just as he was about to come, he was interrupted by an instant messenger notification. It was from someone named Isabella Huntley, saying she'd like to discuss an issue in the Multigen codebase at his convenience.
_Tranny or real?_ Chad wondered, clicking on her profie.
-The profile text indicated that Ada was on the newly formed capability risk evaluations team. Chad groaned. _Yuddites._ Fears of artificial intelligence destroying humanity had been trending on social and traditional media lately. Magma had commissioned a team with the purpose to monitor and audit the company's AI projects for the emergence of unforeseen and potentially dangerous capabilities, although the exact scope of their power was unclear and probably subject to the outcome of future intra-company political struggles.
+The profile text indicated that Isabella was on the newly formed capability risk evaluations team. Chad groaned. _Yuddites._ Fears of artificial intelligence destroying humanity had been trending on social and traditional media lately. Magma had commissioned a team with the purpose to monitor and audit the company's AI projects for the emergence of unforeseen and potentially dangerous capabilities, although the exact scope of their power was unclear and probably subject to the outcome of future intra-company political struggles.
Chad took a dim view of the AI risk crowd. Given what deep learning could do nowadays, it didn't feel quite right to dismiss their doomsday stories as science fiction, exactly, but Chad maintained it was the _wrong subgenre_ of science fiction. His team was building the computer from _Star Trek_, not _A Fire Upon the Deep_: tools, not creatures. Despite the brain-inspired name, "neural networks" were ultimately just a technique for fitting a piecewise linear function to training data. If it was counterintuitive how much you could get done with a piecewise linear function fitted to _the entire internet_, previous generations must have found it equally counterintuitive to how how much you could get done with millions of arithmetic operations per second. It was a new era of technology, not a new era of life.
-It was perhaps because of his skepticism rather than in spite of it that he had volunteered to be the Multigen team's designated contact person for the risk evals team (which was no doubt why Ada had messaged him). No one else had volunteered at the meeting when it came up, and Chad had been slightly curious what "capability risk evaluations" would even entail.
+It was perhaps because of his skepticism rather than in spite of it that he had volunteered to be the Multigen team's designated contact person for the risk evals team (which was no doubt why Isabella had messaged him). No one else had volunteered at the meeting when it came up, and Chad had been slightly curious what "capability risk evaluations" would even entail.
-Well, now he would find out. He washed his hands and messaged Ada back, offering to hop on a quick video call.
+Well, now he would find out. He washed his hands and messaged Isabella back, offering to hop on a quick video call.
-_Definitely a tranny_, thought Chad, as Ada's face appeared on screen.
+_Definitely a tranny_, thought Chad, as Isabella's face appeared on screen.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything important," she said.
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