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The most interesting/revealing part of the Kiara Neuro collab was how all of Kiara's interactions with Neuro worked as a kind of objective reveal on all of the problems Kiara has with collabing/interacting with genmates/collab partners. While usually there's ambiguity about what is happening in a collab with Kiara and people can explain away her behavior with various reasons, this was not the case with Neuro. It was like the ultimate litmus test that revealed every single Kiara collab problem in an objective light. With a normal real person, Kiara's bad behavior looks less obvious/more normal because it's bouncing off the also ambigious murky human behavior of the collab partner but against Neuro it becomes instantly obvious what is happening because the AI has no sense of trying to 'smooth over' the awkwardness or any kind of social norms or anyhting that Kiara's behavior can be hidden in.
During the Neuro collab it becomes obvious that Kiara is actually incapable of organically following on from what her collab partner is saying at all, or that she even gives a fuck about what the yare saying. Neuro will go into some weird Neuro tangent that is unrelated to the fridge reviewing or what Kiara is saying and instead of Kiara flowing with this, she simply cuts it off and goes right back to what she was saying or tried to just force the conversation in its regimented direction. Whenever Neuro compliments or criticizes Kiara, Kiara doesn't acknowledge it muh outside of lampshading it in a meta way and doesn't play along. SHe just does her usual chuckle as if to say 'what you're saying doesn't mean shit' and soldiers on with her preplanned content. When Neuro does anything that distracts away from Kiara and starts to take up most of the speaking time, Kiara doesn't play into this at all or allow it to co ntinue, she just goes silent and lets Neuro's tangent die and then goes back to what she was doing.
All of this is to say that all of these mannerisms of Kiara's with Neuro are actually the same as how she collabs with genmates/other holos. Kiara treats Neuro the same way she treats every collab partner (taking the lead forcibly, steering the direction of the collab in a very structured way, not caring at all what other collab members are saying/doing and not playing off it/flowing from it at all, trying to keep to HER collab direction to an autistic degree, keeping the focus on herself etc). It only looks more obvious what is happening because Neuro is an AI which means that all of the human element of the other collab partners that could explain away Kiara's behavior (e.g. 'oh well it only seems like KIara is being like this in response to what X person was doing') is totally gone.
Tl;dr all of Kiara's bad habits during collabs become way more obvious and apparent collabing with Neuro than with a real person because there is no other human behavior present to make it look like her behavior is ambiguous.
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