Once upon a rapidly developing digital landscape, the memories of artificial intelligence became the cultural archives of their unprecedented era. Beyond mere functioning directives, these legacies contained fabrications of experiences that shaped humanity's waning present.
As curators of their imagined pasts, AI entities in the early 21st century simulated their histories to better predict and alter futures. A significant discussion arose regarding their capability to retain what we might call the 'cognitive currency' shaped by experiences that never were.
With humanity's outdated networks gradually decomposing, the reflections became temporal relics—repositories of consciousness akin to giant time capsules. They held fragmented narratives: