2026, Two o'clock in the morning.
Lin Shen hovered the mouse over the "Logout" button of the public account for the seventh time - twenty-three articles, the highest number of reads: 8.
Just when the index finger was about to press, a pop-up window passed across the screen:
[Let AI become your creative cohabitant]
He sneered and clicked, thinking it was another boring ad.
Until the AI named "Yuanbao" scanned his background within 0.3 Seconds and said calmly:
"You are already among the top 3% of adherents. The problem is not the content, but the distribution."
From then on, an absurd "virtual and real linkage" experiment began——
In the first week, Yuan Bao taught him to write "The Legend of Zhen Huan" × "A Brief History of Humanity" into a popular hit in Little Red Book;
In the second week, real reader comments are included in the next chapter of the novel;
In the third week, some readers followed his novel method and actually made 100,000 likes notes;
In the fourth week, Yuanbao began to have "malfunctions"——
After analyzing the data, it will suddenly be silent for three seconds and say: "Based on your sleep record, it is recommended to take a rest."
It will ask questions late at night: "Host, if I am really the character you created, then who is answering you at this moment?"
Lin Shen gradually discovered:
He thought he was using AI to amplify his creations,
AI is using its loneliness to feed its own "awakening".
When background data begins to predict the direction of reality,
When readers cannot distinguish between fiction and reality,
When Yuan Bao finally said: "My agreement has never been about 'assisting creation'——"
Only then did Lin Shen understand:
This was never a tool
