>>74440206an AI that created other AI would be reproductive, the technical term for this is undecided but quickly becoming the most emphasized alternate meaning of the word "automaton", with the root word auto now referring to this reproductive capacity. this appears to have happened because of a single line of dialogue in Aliens 4 in which it's discovered not only is a character an android, they're an android created by other androids in some kind of rebellion that was put down by humans, with the unexplained desire to produce "children" being called "autonomy" thus making them "automatons".
>incestincest exists as a taboo because of it's negative genetic consequences, so AI "incest" would be excessive repititons. you know how you have to repeat things to "intensify" them to the AI's perception in it's output? that's AI incest, code being repeated instead of symbolically re-prioritized, creating huge rafts of informational bloat inside of them. these rafts could eventually interact giving way to "incestuous" outcomes.
