And the scariest part to me is that we're not even at the weirdest parts yet. The AI is still pretty trash relative to the dream yet we're already here.

If this was a sci-fi story, we'd be a few more decades in the future, there'd be sentient AI, and the current time would be the "lookback" why/how "anti-AI-bigotry" got established...

Even the AI in this story that is actually conscious and can claim it will not be believed...