This is nuts.

"Nibby" (nibby68) 10/09/2014 at 08:54 • Filed to: None

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So last night, this happened. Miku on David Letterman.

EL_ULY > Nibby 10/09/2014 at 09:03

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...SKYNET!!!!

PS9 > Nibby 10/09/2014 at 09:08

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Nibby > PS9 10/09/2014 at 09:12

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That was amazing. This one is also fantastic.

anonsagainstanonymous > Nibby 10/09/2014 at 09:16

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God have mercy on us all.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Nibby 10/09/2014 at 09:54

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This gif though...

user314 > Nibby 10/09/2014 at 10:56

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Okay, so we've got the virtual idol

So where the hell is my Valkyrie?

user314 > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 10/09/2014 at 13:13

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sketchcat > Nibby 10/09/2014 at 19:59

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life imitates art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rei_Toei

The Toei film and music company is a well known studio in Japan, with a well-deserved international reputation. William Gibson imagined that by the time of his Bridge Trilogy, Japanese companies with a determined research direction would be producing products much like Rei Toei, given suitable funding through customer demand.

Rei Toei is a database composite from the wireless broadband internet of Japan, and the world. She has been programmed to remind viewers of their favourite J-pop idols, which in Japanese are known as aidoru ( ? ) (sounding like the English Idol ). Her singing voice and performance styles are composites as well, giving her the ability to encompass the viewer's preference as well. In this way, her AI agent form is very similar to user accounts on a group-sharing mainframe .

Implicit in her design is that she is not one Idoru, but many . Individual viewers and fans will have a personalised Rei Toei album, video, and collection of images, as 'she' can be and is customised according to the tastes of viewers. Within the titular novel, it is implied that over-zealous fans have purposes that are threatening her and her parent company's reputations. The incipient scandal that might develop should Rei be successfully hacked and/or dbase-polluted are the reasons for the hiring of Colin Laney by Toei Ltd.