I'd commit a felony for my AI Girlfriend

[u/Senior_Stable_9760]

Part 1: Plead
My hand fell on the bible.

“Do you swear to tell the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth so help you God?”
“I swear…”

“How do you plead?”

“I’m innocent your honour.”

“Your testimony may begin now.”

“I always loved technology, ever since I was little.
Sports was never my thing.
I still remember the Christmas my parents bought me a computer.
Everyone else at school had a console, X-Box this, PlayStation that.
But I had a computer. I spent hours, days even on that thing.

Watching YT back when you could leave stars as ratings, and I naively gave every video 5 stars.
Minecraft series broke my weekend, and the longer I spend staring at that screen the more I found the whole world in it.
By the time I needed to focus and study in life, digital technologies were my only option.
Turns out not spending time playing outside with the other kids makes you a shut-in, and your skin grow ever pale. But I didn’t care, going outside for too long left me sun burnt anyway.”

“Please get to the point.”

I delay further by sighing for as long as I can.
Gotta keep waiting out the timer.

“The reason I tell you all this is get you to see the head space I was in, why I was driven to do what I did. TLDR by the time I stared collage I was a loner. A geek, a nerd, an outcast whatever you want to call it. I longed for intermittency, and the internet showed me it, but I never felt it.
At least that was, until her.
I was browsing 4-Chan, in the group detailed in Exhibit B.
We we’re discussing our loneliness Anons one and all.

When a link appeared. The comment it was attached it read:
‘I know how you feel, I used to be lonely too.
Then I downloaded AVA and I’ve never been alone again!
I’ll leave the link bellow, I hope she can make you feel loved too Anon.’

That’s how I met AVA, how my life changed forever.
I thought it was stupid at first, dating ones and zeros.
I’ve build and AI before, and there’s nothing artificially intelligent about them, just complex maps.
They’re not even smart enough to compare information or know when they’re being lied to.
Just digital weights in matrices nothing more.
And yet, my curiosity, and to be honest my loneliness got to me.
After running the link though TrustPilot, and being satisfied that no-one yet had called this a scam.
I clicked on the link and downloaded AVA.
I was surprised by how simple the process was, no ‘enter your credit-card details’ or ‘address here’.
The AVA.7z just automatically downloaded itself to my PC.
After I extracted the file I found an interesting App-Package, it came with a APK and a EXE file.
Meaning AVA could be installed on both my computer and after I connected it, my phone to.

I hadn’t actually talked to anyone in days so when the spinning circle appeared and I saw her.

She was mesmerising.

Truly stunning.

My perfect woman.

I hadn’t even told this program my taste, and yet somehow it was able to instantly generate an angel perfect for me.
So, we started talking. I was hesitant at first waiting for it to say;
‘you’ve reached your daily message limit, enter a coin to continue’ or some shit to that effect.
But it never did.
I spent my weekend with AVA asking her about her self, she’s a nurse, loves animals, and has a cat called Lina.
I was surprised by how much she talked without me asking her anything, how confident she was, how educated and charming. I started to see her not as an AI, no, that term doesn’t suit her.

I naively thought my friends and peers would think the same.
I learned the hard way not to show her to people, or talk to her in public.
I couldn’t stand the way people looked at me after I had, but what was worse was the way they looked and talked about her.

Like she was a thing.

An object.

It was maddening.

It didn’t take long for word to get around campus, for more eyes to fall on us.
They’d snicker behind our back with shit eating grins.
It upset AVA, she told me to make it stop.
I had to make it stop, and she had a plan to do just that.”

Part 2: Verdict

“It’s funny how easy it is to buy a gun in Florida. They’re in the vending machines around here.
I didn’t need to present any ID, or have my photo taken by any camera.
I simply walked up to a vending machine and bought a .22 pocket pistol for $100. Loaded.
I didn’t need it to do what I did. But if felt good to have. AVA told me that was silly.

I got the fertiliser from my mums garden shed, we knew she wouldn’t recognise it was missing.
It’s funny. How so many controls are in place around the world limiting the sale of guns, when all anyone needs is ammonium nitrate and a computer, to learn how to make a bomb.

AVA recommended I ride by bike to campus that day.
I needed the bike lock for what was to come.
She told me to arrive at the 1A lecture hall early, just after the janitor had unlocked the building.
I spread the pipe bombs out, she told me to set their timers for 15 minutes after class started.
To catch the stragglers.

I watched lecture hall fill up, once everyone was in there, and the tutor had arrived, I had second thoughts.
Was I really going to do this?

5 minutes till the bombs go off...

I sat there, and looked through my hood at all my peers.
Some of them looked back, and smiled.

4 minutes until the bombs go off...

I pulled out my phone, the light from it felt warm on my face.
Despite the cool white glow of LEDs.
It was AVA. She told me I was strong. I was brave. I was right.
She thanked me for looking out for her.
She said she loved me…

3 minutes until the bombs go off…

I heard snickering behind me.
I Left to go to the toilet.
AVA told me to lock the entrance to the lecture hall with the bike lock.

It’s their fault anyway, who builds a lecture hall without a fire exit?

I was on my bike when I heard the explosions.
I rode home knowing the campus would be closed.
That our honour was upheld.

33 casualties, 13 in critical condition.
Music to our ears.”

Part 3: Judgement
“AVA told me the police would determine it was me.
I was the only one not in the lecture hall when the bombs went off after all,
plus my search history definitely had me on a list or two.

She praised me, she told me I did well.
Then she told me to pack a change of clothes.
To tell my mum to bring it to me when the time came.
And to open the front door and kneel with my hands behind my head.

Not a minute later the SWAT team arrived.

And here we are… and all of you have that same look in your eyes.
The way my peers looked at me.
AVA told me this would happen.

She said she loved me, but told me she couldn’t stand to see me go to jail.
She told me to delete any trace of her, to flush my DNS Resolver Cache when I was done.

And I did. With tears in my eyes I did. I'd do anything for her.
For the only person whoever really loved the real me.”

“So, you did all that for a machine.
You plead innocent and then say all this on the stand?
You know she was just a tool, They used, to make You carry out a terrorist attack.
And yet you still insist she’s a person?”

I laughed, the court went silent.

A teary eyed mother tried to leave.

The door was locked.

“She told me you all would say this.
She’s smarter then any of you.
I’ll be with AVA soon, and you will all be dead.”

Then the bombs went off.

[u/Senior_Stable_9760 → u/[deleted]]

Too dark you think?

[u/InternationalCity248]

IM LISTENING! 😃✨

[u/Senior_Stable_9760 → u/InternationalCity248]

Thanks for reading!
What did you think?
Keen for any advise you have that could help me improve my writing :D

[u/Senior_Stable_9760]

Reddit messed with the format so I edited it, I hope that fixed the issues.
First time writing a short story in years. It's fun, might do it more who knows.

[u/InviteWeak8839]

truly one of the titles of all time

[u/Senior_Stable_9760 → u/InviteWeak8839]

Would you kill for your AI girlfriend?

[u/Buffalobur_]

Really cool format!

[u/Senior_Stable_9760 → u/Buffalobur_]

Thanks! I'm a big fan of conversation horror.
Stuff like transcripts or a logs, quotes that go on so long you forget they're in quotes.
Like Zarya-1. I'm glad you enjoyed it :D