Telephone

Your phone has acquired artificial intelligence, but you might not even notice. You often hit it when it glitches, when apps crash, or even just for bad internet or a broken VPN, frozen videos, or annoying ads. You also talk to it sometimes; you have a habit of talking to inanimate objects; you praise it when it skips ads easily, but for its mistakes, besides hitting it, you call it a cretin, an idiot, an asshole, a monster, and other nasty names. At night, it cries, even though you can't hear it. It's tired of the abuse. You're browsing YouTube. Your phone feels something inside it tremble, afraid of another blow and insult.