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>Also the Mechanicum also uses true AI to a presumeably lesser extent than the dark mech but passes it off as just the machine spirit
Machine spirits are specifically ambiguous. They may be true AIs, they may be emergent consciousness born from ancient computers, but they may also just be actual spirits. Or just pure superstition. It's probably a combination of all four, varying from machine to machine
>I disagree I think an artificially created slave caste is evil and fits their theme and shows actual technological innovation which the dark mech should have over the mechanicum that defines itself as technological progress and innovation itself as a sin.
Uhh, anon. Regular Mech already have their own slave caste that is significantly more viscerally horrifying than imprisoned souls.