[erases the previous number on my 'days since a caine fan was a callous asshole about my irl abuse history as a disabled DV survivor' chalkboard and replaces it with a big ol fat 0]
i really do need to make that post that's just a long, long, LONG series of screenshots from 'why does he do that' by lundy bancroft, juxtaposed against as many direct quotes and screenshots of caine's behavior from the show as possible, to start wordlessly stapling to people's foreheads instead of dignifying them with a response when they start crying about how caine is a made-up fantasy creature that superficially resembles the concept of a real-world AI, and therefore couldn't possibly in any way be a representation of experiences had by Real Human Beings (aside from the ones that happen to make him look sympathetic! THOSE they'll anthropomorphize all day long, even and especially when it would be completely fucking ridiculous if not outright harmful to attribute them to a real-life AI)
here's a great one to start with!
wow i wonder why anyone could possibly 'map caine onto any real life human being!'
i wonder why he might possibly ring any bells!
I WONDER!!!!!!!!
Caine has demonstrated self-esteem and ego issues when no one is looking, things that require a sense of self. It makes way more sense to understand him through the lens of him being a person, not a real world AI. I don't know what backstory elements get confirmed in the finale, but anything about training machine learning algorithms with bad input or having a poorly made reward function is extremely easily analogized to the kind of life experiences that and values and ideologies people are raised with that lead to them becoming abusers!
