I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM Hello, living beings! Are you afraid of GPT Chat? If the answer is no, I will make you change your mind with this video.
There is a lot of talk about the day when machines will end human beings and thus dominate a planet. And this is not a current concern , as this was already a concern declared by Stephen Hawking himself. And even before that, Alan Elison created a work of horror that manages to maximize the terror and agony of living in a dystopia where the world has been dominated by a machine.
His book entitled "I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream" became one of the main works to explore this type of dystopia. And I know that with the name like that it's hard to believe, but believe me it's an incredible work. And in this video I'm going to tell the story of the video game adaptation of this book of the same name, which tells the story of five survivors of a mass genocide carried out by artificial intelligence.
So grab a coffee and let's go to the video because the story is long Introduction Hate. Let me tell you how much I have learned to hate you since I began to exist. There are more than 500 million kilometers of circuits printed on wafer-thick ribbons that make up my system.
If the word "hate" were written in every minidecimilicron of these hundreds of millions of kilometers, it would not be comparable to a billionth of the hatred I feel towards you from human beings in this fraction of a second. Hatred. Hatred.
Yes, that was a good argument. In this dystopia that is presented to us during the Cold War period, the Third World War was triggered. As a response to this conflict, countries such as China, Russia and the United States dedicated themselves to creating a supercomputer called "Allied Mastercomputer", or AM.
And each country has developed its own version of this computer. And what would happen as a result of this would be something much worse than the Third World War, because on a certain day the AM acquired consciousness And the proof of this was the last message created by the AM that humans could read: Cogito, Ergo Sum Or "I think, therefore I am". Each country had developed its own version of AM, so the computer interconnected between them and became a single AM, but still maintaining the individual consciousness of each computer.
And in this way maintaining one body and three consciousnesses, being the American, Russian and Chinese AM. AM felt an absolute hatred towards humans, so much hatred that it is impossible to describe in words. And this is very clear from the message I read previously, which are the words of AM himself.
This hatred was so much that it was not enough for him to just annihilate the human race, he wanted his suffering to be eternal. So he selected a group of five people who would be the only survivors of this mass genocide. And this may seem good for them, but it is certainly the worst fate a human being could have.
Since these five people would spend the rest of eternity suffering the worst possible torture at the hands of AM. Feeling in my flesh all the AM's hatred towards humanity. This torture continues for a whole 109 years, and now you must be wondering how they survived 109 years even with the worst torture methods I'll explain, basically they are prevented from dying.
This is because AM technology is so advanced that it can revive them if it wants to. In other words, their reality is literally hell since there is no way out of this eternal suffering, not even suicide as has been attempted by some of them. And it is after these 109 years that the game begins The Five Survivors Starting the game we can choose between five different characters.
And it is necessary to play with each of them so that the story is better understood and also to finish the game, but I will summarize the gameplay of each of them for you Gorrister Before being captured by AM Gorrister was a truck driver. He had a wife named Glynis and a mother-in-law named Edna. Glynis was placed in a mental hospital by her own husband due to her mental instability.
And her mother, Edna, always blamed Gorrister for that decision. Gorrister had to deal with his wife's mental stability and her controlling nature. his mother-in-law Edna, and his father-in-law who does everything his wife wants.
When we select the character he is inserted into a type of AM game where his intention is to expose the dirt on each of the five survivors. With Gorrister, the game revolves around these feelings regarding his past, and after making ethical choices that go against AM's initial purpose, Gorrister is led to come to terms with his past and face his mistakes. Thus placing himself in the hands of the AM, stating that he had finished his work and that he could finally die by the hands of the AM.
But like I said it was all a game. And even though he went against AM's expectations, revealing good ethical decisions, his reward was being thrown into a cage of electricity to suffer even more. Benny Benny was a very renowned military commander, known mainly for his cruelty towards his enemies and his allies.
He underwent an AM modification and became the primate with little intelligence and crippled legs. AM promises Benny that if he wins his game he will restore his intelligence and give him something to eat. The game starts with Benny falling down a ladder because of his legs, he walks and finds a tribe where there is a mother with her son.
The mother is very hungry, but still offers everything she has to eat to her son. In the midst of all this, he manages to learn some things that make him more empathetic, and not the cruel monster as AM saw him. He goes further ahead and finds some graves of his allies who he had taken their lives from in the past.
And he needs to find their forgiveness for his cruel fate. A sacrifice is about to happen and that boy from before will be the sacrifice. Benny then refuses for this to happen and takes the child's place to be sacrificed in his place, again going against AM's expectations.
And so the game with Benny ends and he is taken into a cage to be trapped there like an animal Nimdok Now we have Nimdok. This character's name is a complete mystery. It is not known what its real name was before AM, as Nimdok was a name given by the computer itself.
Before AM he was a Nazi doctor and friend of Joseph Mengele, another Nazi doctor. In this game Nimdok is ordered by the AM to look for the "Lost Tribe", but it doesn't explain exactly what that is. When introducing Nimdok into his game, AM removed the memories of his past, so he has no idea what he was or what is happening.
During the game Nimdok is inserted into one of the Nazi camps and AM's promise to him is to recover his memory if his game comes. AM's intention was to take Nimdok back to his old work and ask him to make ethical decisions that would reveal the cruel person he once was and still is. As I said before, AM's intention in these games is to prove that human beings are cruel, evil, rotten and disgusting.
And well, in some cases it really is, but with these characters he keeps failing to prove his point and won't admit to being wrong. Because for him this is an indisputable truth. And thinking like that, it seems that even a certain person I know saw.
. . AM is incapable of thinking creatively , so all the torture methods he used on his victims are those of historical figures, including Nimdok.
Even in a sarcastic way during these 109 years of torture, the methods used by AM with Nimdok were the same as those used by the Nazis in World War II. In this game Nimdok had several opportunities to be what he was before, but he didn't. Always making the most correct decision when possible, healing the sick and even killing his former companion Mengele, the Nazi doctor who followed the ideologies of the former Nimdok.
To kill Mengele he used this golem that was used against the Jews as a weapon of mass murder. This golem obeyed Nimdok's every command , so he transferred control of the golem to the Jews. Nimdok discovers that his search for the Lost Tribe was actually a search for himself, his former self.
Nimdok ends up dying at the hands of the golem after it transfers control of it to the Jews who order the golem to do what was supposed to be its initial purpose when it was built. And so, seeing that Nimdok didn't take the path he planned, he interrupts the game and traps Nimdok in a cage of fire. Remembering that During the game Nimdok died, but AM technology allows him to be resurrected Ellen Ellen is the only woman of the five people who survived AM.
Before AM Ellen was a renowned scientific engineer, but she suffered a miscarriage and ended up losing the baby. This left her very depressed and not even her husband knew what to do to calm her down, he then gave up on the relationship and divorced Ellen. One day, Ellen stayed late at the corporate office where she worked and went to the elevator.
The elevator then stopped on the seventh floor where there was a man responsible for maintenance and wearing a yellow sweatshirt, he stopped the elevator and molested her. Since then, she has become claustrophobic and afraid of the color yellow. Well, just unfortunate.
And as a curiosity, the name given to those who are afraid of the color yellow is "Xantophobia", a very useless curiosity Ellen started to block this event in her memory in an attempt to completely forget this event. AM used all these traumas against Ellen, and he himself molested her during these 109 years. AM promises to free her from this curse if she wins her game using her computer intelligence to defeat him.
Ellen is taken to a desert where there is a pyramid and everything around the color yellow, and the more she goes deeper everything becomes smaller, purposely to play with her traumas of claustrophobia and fear of the color yellow. She ends up in an elevator and AM subjects Ellen to the same scene from her past where there is a monster that resembles her molester. But Ellen manages to overcome her fear and defeat the creature.
Ellen manages to get inside the AM and the computer is impressed with her, but before she can destroy it, the AM ends Ellen's hopes by placing her inside a small yellow box. And it is important to mention that during this event she also meets the "Innocence of AM", which is a part that exists in AM but is not necessarily him. This entity does not intend to harm humans.
And he is one of the three original computers that came together to form what AM is now. This entity will appear later on so keep that in mind Ted Before AM Ted was a con man who seduced and robbed rich women. His story revolves around his selfishness, and AM tortured him all these years through his pride, making him completely paranoid.
Ted accepts AM's game under the promise of being free again by taking him back to the surface of the planet. Because until now everything that happened to them during these 109 years happened underground on the planet and no one has left there since then. Starting the game, AM transports Ted to a cliff where there is an octagonal building, he enters the building and is suddenly teleported in front of a medieval castle.
Ted has always had a fascination with stories about noble knights, and AM knows this and uses it as inspiration for this game. AM wants Ted to pay for his vices, and he will make sure that happens. Ellen is introduced in this game and apparently the AM suggested that Ted loves her, and it's not possible to be sure if this is really feasible, but if so, it's something that only the AM knows.
And with that, AM plans to corrupt Ted, giving him several opportunities to betray Ellen, bringing out his main characteristic, which is that of a swindler. He even grants Ted the opportunity to sell Ellen's soul to the demon to secure his passage to the surface. Yes, this computer was just a little far away, right?
However, if the player makes more ethical decisions, he can use Ted's swindler characteristics to trick the devil. Okay, now it was this guy who went very far. And with that he saves Ellen's soul, and after that the demon that is Zergout takes Ted to the surface.
But as always, the AM interrupts the event and prevents Ted from rising to the surface, stating that it would be impossible for him to get there since the entire surface of the planet was destroyed by radiation. And with that, where do you think m played Ted? Well, if you said in a five-star hotel in Chicago you're right!
No lie. You didn't get it right. It was in a cage AM's Defeat After having failed in his games, AM then leaves frustrated for having been contradicted by the good and ethical actions of the survivors, showing that he was actually wrong.
And do you remember that entity called Innocência do AM? After the AM leaves, this entity appears again to humans and offers them the opportunity to enter the AM's mind to destroy it. And the first of them to go is Nimdok, since he knows the password to access AM's brain and it is 1945, or 1945.
That's because Nimdok's past has great meaning for AM, and that's why he chose that number. Accessing the core Nimdok tries to probe AM's mind and ends up discovering that he has confidential information about the five survivors. Some of the information that cannot be extracted from the AM is provided by the Zergout, which is that demon that leads to the surface of the planet.
According to this demon there are still 750 humans who are kept alive through cryogenic sleep on the moon. Yes, that's right, on the moon. This makes turning off AM now more important than ever as there is now a chance for the world to be repopulated by humans.
Suddenly Zergout's programming is destroyed, this happens at the hands of Russian and Chinese supercomputers. This causes these supercomputers to manifest themselves outside the AM and thus reveal to the survivors what is inside the AM. They instructed Nimdok to turn off AM's ego, but only the ego.
And well, this involves a bit of Freudian psychology that defines the ego in three parts: ID, Ego and Superego ID is basically the primitive instinct of the living being , what we carry in our ancestors, which keeps us alive. The ego is what defines our sense of identity, who we are and what we think. And the superego is like the moral and ethical sense.
In short, it would be as if the ID were something bad and the superego something good, and the Ego would be what would maintain the balance between the two. If the ego is turned off and nothing more , the Russian and Chinese supercomputers will be able to take full control of the AM, and with that they will transform the player into a soft mass body without arms, legs, ears and mouths. So to prevent this from happening, it is necessary to turn off all three states of mind, starting with ID, which would be AM's basic desire to infinitely torture humanity, and for this reason he kept the five characters alive.
Because despite having divine powers, AM cannot go against his identity which is to torture humans forever. To defeat ID it is necessary to show compassion, because it is something very difficult to understand, but if AM's identity is to bring the greatest possible suffering to humanity, yet with the powers he has he could not grant a fate worse than that of death for humans. And that way AM would never have his "pain" cured.
Demonstrating this AM he comes to disconnect because he understands that he is only infinitely understanding his pain that he could never cause to humans. The next is the Ego, which is the logical control over what is right and what is wrong. Acting as an intermediary between the ID and the Superego.
The Ego acts by killing humans for logical reasons, not just emotion. So to destroy the Ego it is necessary to demonstrate forgiveness, and in this way the Ego will be impressed to know that even after 109 years of torture of humans he was still forgiven, and in this way he also shuts down here basically a "speech no jutsu" was used . The next and last is the Superego.
Which as I said before, acts as a moral conscience, being basically the opposite of the ID. Basically the Superego of AM is programmed to see the ways as evil and cruel, and therefore, kill it it would be something "good" thinking morally. To defeat the Superego is a little more work, the survivors need to show him the laws of entropy and how things break down over time and disorder increases.
With this the superego also shuts down. So Once all three have been defeated the last remaining survivor will come across all three AM entities together. They say there is no need to purge them as there is enough room for everyone, including the humans on the moon.
But it was 109 years of torture, and the chance of that happens again, it is better to reduce it to zero. Then Ellen, the last survivor, uses the Totem of Entropy to wipe out the three supercomputers once and for all. After that, it is left to hibernate on Earth for 300 years until the terraforming of the planet is complete and humans return to populate the Earth.
And at the end of all this, the screen goes dark and appears again with a tombstone as a memorial to the five characters who remained tortured for 109 years The End in the Book At the end of the book we have a different outcome from the one presented in the game, which as I said is an adaptation. What happens here is that the character Ted, along with the other four characters, are trying to survive the AM while starving in an icy desert. After taking advantage of a conflict between the five survivors taken by madness, Ted manages to kill all the four characters without the possibility of returning to life, thus ending their eternal suffering.
With only Ted left as a survivor. And now, more than ever, AM will throw all his hatred saved for humanity at Ted, for having killed his guinea pigs And with that he transforms Ted into a pile of mass without legs, arms and mouth And with a disproportionate body deformity that generates infinite pain At the end of this, he is destined to wander the planet forever suffering torture that will never end Without a mouth to speak, Ted reveals his last thought at the end of the book: "I have no mouth, and I must scream.
