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What if the AI alien ALWAYS sounded like a robot? (Theory)

posted 2 years ago by The_Rev (315)
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So, I just thought of this while watching... You know how we all assume "Sally's" voice changing gradually as the movie goes on, from a very human sounding one, to a computer generated one is actually just Jack slowly picking up on the AI's real voice because he was programmed by them, likely to keep him from realizing he was a clone working for the aliens? What if Jack is just now realizing something was off about her voice from the beginning? If Sally is some all-powerful AI, she should have been able to create a voice that sounded identical to humans... Yet she doesn't. There's no logical reason, other than Sally knowing that Jack knows the truth about everything, for her to change her voice from a more human one to a robotic one. She's a friggin supercomputer... She can do trillions, quadrillions, maybe even an infinite number of FLOPs, yet she can't manage to sound like a human indefinitely?
I don't buy it. I think she sounded the same from beginning to end, and that it was only when Jack started questioning the reality he was presented with that her voice began to morph into her "real" voice.

Thoughts?

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

What If is Marvel. This here was a signal to the audience. In other words: you'd have bought it had you been Jack.

[–] Missemd (276) 2 years ago

Yeah I thought Sally's voice becoming more robotic (and the videos of her talking also began looking a bit more sinister) was just another hint for the audience to help them to come to the realisation the TET was the AI and that the SCAVS in fact were the leftover human race.