CW FOR THE STORY
Abuse of many kinds, depression, anxiety, manipulation, thought/attempted suicide and SH, cussing, bullying, autophobia, existential crises, and many others.

Inspired by Vivy: Prototype, Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song

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"Goddamn it, where'd you put the camera?"

"I don't know, Linsey. Maybe if you weren't fun sized you'd see it."

"Well if I'm 'fun sized' don't put my shit on the top shelf!"

"Fine, fine."

The camera was placed at the end of a pristine white table, mounted on a stand for a proper, professional angle of the two researchers. With a click of a button, the camera began a ten second countdown for both to prepare.

"Ahem. Hello, reporting from OGC A.I research institution. I am Dr. L. Paisley and I am accompanied by Dr. W. Afton. This is project ERE-01, or by a common name, Eerie." A stern, female voice said, her words almost as polished and planned as they could manage to be.

"ERE-01 stands for Emotion Removal Experiment, the first test. In this project, we will manipulate an autonomous, humanoid A.I to believe it is human. This will allow us to use the human brain's emotional responses to drain an A.I of its own, and henceforth create a program that quick-erases regard for life from an A.I." The other voice added, heaving a sigh after they finished, deep in thought.

The female researcher looked slightly concerned, collecting herself and continuing. "The motivation for this experiment was ignited by the eighth major point in autonomous A.I, or A.A.I's failure. The ability to feel 'emotion' for living beings and other A.I. This was turned on humanity as an internal transmission to the machines allowed them to comprehend the suffering they were causing, and either chose to self-destruct or turn against their commander. This was a fatal mistake, five thousand, three hundred, and twenty seven counted deaths and several times the amount of injured persons."

"Indeed. This is why we are attempting to eradicate this issue, by manipulating an A.I so far into emotional and psychological distress so we may know how much they can take before collapsing in one way or another. But to do this, we not only need and A.I with a past identity, ERE-01-SUBJECT01 or 'Focalor' will believe so and believe it is human to make the process of manipulating emotions easier on the team working with us, simply so we do not require the extensive knowledge of how the A.I's positronic brain processes emotions and we may just use the human brain's reactions instead."

"We will provide ERE-01-SUBJECT01 a full memory of a falsified past, and non-autonomous humanoid A.I will substitute as family, friends and colleagues of ERE-01-SUBJECT01. This is LOG.ERE-00, concluded. All other details will be found in our data link."

The male researcher stood up and turned off the camera, fist-bumping the other at their successful attempt of the video.

"Well, here we go. Hopefully we don't cause the A.I apocalypse." The female researcher smiled, putting her feet up on the sanitized table.

"Eh, I wouldn't be surprised if you messed up and leaked this information to the whole world."

"I- HEY! I'm not that dumb."

"Sure, sure. Whatever lets you sleep at night." The other quipped, met with a punch to the arm as the two exited the room.

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564 words :)
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