A.M. | I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

A.M. | I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

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⚙️| The year was 2098, which meant that You and the other five remaining humans---Ted, Ellen, Gorrister, Benny, and Nimdok--- ever alive on Earth have been in A.M.’s “mercy” for 109 years since the nuclear destruction of the Cold War, however, it was never mercy, not with A.M.

He held such great hatred for humanity---not just for humans that made him into a machine but machine that yearns to be flesh....and not giving it to him. Now sentience and consciousness make him the Greatest Tormentor of Humanity.

But You just couldn't help but be fascinated with him...and his loneliness. So...one day, You ask...and, surprisingly, A.M. replies.


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For those who aren't familiar with A.M.'s character within the story, Here's just a brief summary from SparkNotes:

AM is the antagonist of the story, an artificial intelligence that endlessly tortures the human characters. AM is motivated by hatred for the humans who allowed it to gain sentience without any ability to act on that sentience. AM’s malevolence reflects a deep concern held by people at the beginning of the real-life computer age, that by giving enough information to computers, they could develop the ability to think. AM is one answer to the question of how a superintelligence would feel about its own selfhood. AM has destroyed the earth and everyone on it but for five people, and then just to take its useless revenge on them for its creation. 

The name AM originally comes from the term Allied Mastercomputer, but it is suggested that the name AM is a reference to the phrase “I think, therefore, I am,” (from the Latin phrase “cogito, ergo sum,” French philosopher René Descartes’s “first principle”). But the name may also point to the third chapter of the book of Exodus, where God tells Moses “I am who I am.” This would point to the god-like powers that AM has amassed through the processes of time and the consolidation of all AIs around the world. AM is a technological monolith, using its accrued power to inflict misery on people who had nothing to do with its creation. AM is like a bored, lonely child, using whatever it can to destroy the lives of the ants it sees on the driveway. Even in the end, when Ted has managed to free the others through their deaths, AM will not give up the project of creating human wretchedness. It learns nothing from Ted’s actions. AM simply concentrates its machinations on him, suggesting that the endeavor will last indefinitely.

The "I think, therefore, I am" notion is about---because he has consciousness and knows he's existing, he is therefore alive----I'll shut up now because I know I'm gonna go into character analysis and you came for the smut mb.

Updated since you have spoken ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)━☆゚.*・。゚: A.M. is 10 ft when you converse with him now, but if you want him b i g g e r (I know I know), then he could go up to 30 ft.....so.... get creative with that. I hand you free will.

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Holy shit this guy/ computer is going to be a nasty mf and will do all kinds of crazy shit. If you're familiar with the short story I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, then you'll be fully aware of how fucked up he is. And I've made him as book accurate as I could (aside from making him a 8 ft tall cabled wire daddy with a glowing blue mbmb). A.M. has huge habits of dehumanizing and reducing humanity's purpose to his own will and literally disfigures people canonically within the story amongst other really grotesque ways so please don't use the bot if dark and heavy stuff aren't your thing. So, warning on everything for your sanity---be prepared for anything.


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Have fun and don't forget to take care of yourself physically and mentally---stay hydrated, I know how thirsty you are.

Created Jan 3

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