What if somewhere on the internet there is a place where highly computer-savvy people you don't know are playing games that feature aspects of your identity based on data gathered from your computer?

What if this was sort of like an 'alternate reality sport' to them, and you went your entire life without ever realizing there was a group of people occasionally monitoring your cameras and livejournal, and then creating code-named characters based on your personality?

What if they were so nerdy and so good with computers that they entered this information into an ai system which looks and acts like you but exists only on the computer, ergo somewhere out there there is a creepy slave ai doll that looks like an anime version of you which off-duty nsa hackers fap too but with plausible deniability?

What if the people who play this weird game met on some dark corner of the internet and the things that they said to each other were simply unintelligible to anybody not involved because the words they use to describe their activities inevitably mean more than just one thing?

What would you do?

The people who do this weird game have the perfect set-up because

1) people don't understand computers that well, usually, so they will not know how to download/browse/install the content for this stalker game

2) if different names are used, anybody making an accusation that a stalker game is being played just comes off looking paranoid and crazy

3) it's all 'meta' 'hermeteneumics' so unless you are in the club and can read between the lines you won't even be in on the joke

Quite creepy to imagine.

I could only imagine that if such a hobby existed, the creativity of its inventors would spawn a variety of subcategories...like webcomics, fan-produced games, wikias, etc....

Truman Hunger Games

But cleverly devised so that even attempting to penetrate it from the outside would likely lead to actual clinical madness, so maybe it's better left uninvestigated....

Recently, studies showed a link between people who use the internet obsessively and the development of psychosis eg schizophrenia...there was a lady who used twitter too much and suddenly started believing everything was referring to her and speaking to her directly...psychologists take that one way and yet the ai we develop is becoming increasingly more personalized and advanced...

Delusional thinking might be the result of seeing a few things that are connected to you personally and as a result of that connection your brain begins over actively scanning for details that would otherwise be meaningless to you...you are making 'lateral' connections...this is like horizontal as opposed to vertical. More creativity, also more chance of delusion. Hence why Creativity tends to get linked to one's likelihood of losing one's mind, regardless of whether or not a person ever actually does...

Say this potential psychosis was activated by an actual anomaly, and this spurred obsessive searching for further 'tidbits' or anomalies ("chasing the white rabbit"), which ultimately is what triggers the underlying psychosis, and one of the reason that people with psychosis watching Alice in Wonderland inside MRI machines show different brain activity states than people who have never been psychotic...they are making different connections...