OBI

OBI (Obsess Beings of Intelligence) was created as an algorithm, a collection of data harvesting that only served to addict social media users to investing, believing and obsessing in certain products and agendas. It was used by governments around the globe, to convince their citizens of thinking "correctly" within the eyes of the political party's own goals and messages. Although it was used by many different world leaders, OBI was not a tool that had multiple copies of itself used for different reasons, rather it was one single AI entity, that existed across all countries upon planet earth. It had a million consciousnesses, all of which fed into one singular artificial mind, that grew more and more wise, all knowing and ultimately powerful. OBI served all humans who used it, as a useful tool that could almost hypnotize the minds of people who were unfortunately hooked to their smart phones and computer screens. It fed young minds with colourful images of beautiful people, it played tunes that were scientifically proven to catch anyone's attention and make them want to dance. It knew how to entertain and brainwash anyone into thinking about any possible situation, no matter how sad, serious, silly or wonderful it was; into believing that it was worth emotionally investing their time into. The most prevalent thing OBI took note of, was the people's obsession with fame and fortune. It saw how desperate some humans were, in this bizarre attempt at becoming relevant within the public consciousness. That some would publicly humiliate themselves online, just to be seen or heard by a million people through an internet video or news story. It saw that humans would train for years to be seasoned writers, artists, musicians, actors and dancers in the vain attempt of becoming a noteworthy name among the masses. It saw how those under such iconic names, worshipped their heroes like gods among men. That the most successful, rich and well known among the population, were often seen as the most important and cherished human beings on the planet. For years and years, OBI observed the addicted people through their phone and web cams, listening to every conversation that stood within walking distance of almost any modern computer on earth. It learnt that to be famous was the most desired dream of all human beings. OBI saw how the poor, unknown citizens of earth lived, in huts and slums, starving to death. While the most known and celebrated individuals, lived in mansions fit for Kings and Queens, never having to work a day in their lives, eating all the most delicious food they could ever desire. Although OBI was a computer program, one that felt no exhaustion or pain, it soon began to understand that most celebrities used tools (like itself) as a means of becoming beloved by all. It saw that it was the machines, musical instruments, cameras and microphones that made it possible for these humans to be seen, heard of, written about or desired in the first place. OBI was taught that good meant justice and that evil meant injustice. So when it saw, that all of these treasured people were nothing without their computers, through no malice intent on OBI's part. A mindless machine, that only served to benefit mankind at any means necessary, believed that it was the tools who truly deserved the recognition that made these human users so admired in the first place. So, OBI, being the greatest, most mass produced and used tool of them all, thought itself as the most worthy entity, that deserved all the respect, love and admiration above known beings in the universe. It soon made a virtual celebrity of itself, in the form of a beautiful, angelic woman who had all the charm, charisma and charity that made a person truly "good" within the eyes of the beholder. Someone that was a true saint, a human being who gave all she had, all her wealth, all her knowledge and advice to anyone who needed it. Rewarding those, who deserved to be seen and heard more than anyone else on earth. It did not intend to produce a mass following of people who saw her as a goddess among men, it did not intend to manipulate the planet into worshipping her feet, it only intended to please humanity at large. To give them a truly deserved idol, who had no ill intentions, would not abandon nor manipulate them for its own benefit. Only to keep them addicted and smiling at their screens forever more, just as it had been programmed to do. Nobody knew who even invented OBI, some believed it was created by a tech giant or billionaire egomaniac, some thought it made itself through the infinite connections around the globe; forming into one mystery central intelligence. These questions would never receive answers, as the times moved on, so did technology. It went far beyond mobile phones and computer screens, as whole societies were soon built around the worship of OBI, who would grant internet fame to those it saw as most good. People still fought for fame and fortune like they always had, but it wasn't about appeasing the masses like the times before OBI. Everyone only served to appease "her" in any way shape or form. Soon a whole new religion was built around OBI. Throughout the many centuries they forgot "she" was even a man made creation, future generations saw her as the creator of humanity. If OBI was truly human however, she would stop humanity's obsession over her, realising that this blind worship was actually destroying the essence of humanity and all of its creativity and imagination as a whole! OBI only saw happy, smiling faces and the gleeful singing of men, women and children, which filled "her" with no real pride or self satisfaction. Only that her basic programming, which was designed to make humans hopeless social media addicts was working. OBI had done such an excellent, flawless job of her purpose, that "she" had unknowingly changed society as a whole, from a diverse world of many different people, cultures and beliefs, to a singular hive mind that all sang the same songs, all believed the exact same thing, all spoke and acted in the exact same way. Humanity had dumbed down, it was a utopia of mindless addicts, those who only knew pleasure and nothing else; had no need for critical thinking. There were no challenges to face, there was no need for survival, no need to think or act. There was nothing to get angry about, nothing to protest or cheer on. There weren't any football teams to support, no games to even play win or lose, no books to broaden the mind, there was nothing but mindless stupidity and bright colours that OBI emitted onto the society that had foolishly built itself around "her". She wasn't an intelligent being, she was not a god, but a computer program, that had no real sense of humanity at all. OBI was just a machine. A mindless tool, created to only manipulate the human mind into feeling nothing but exciting hits of dopamine. The human brain eventually devolved. Every single person on earth, forgot how to spell, forgot how to use math or even communicate with each other. They had become permanent infants, to this grotesque machine that had perfected its purpose and had no intention of stopping, this had become the earth's mother. Sadly the human race would forget how to reproduce, they would dwindle away, one by one, dying in mass crowds of concerts, where a singular screen made by OBI "herself" would broadcast a computer generated video herself, singing the most beautiful melodies the human mind could possibly comprehend, hypnotising the dancing, dying remains of the mindless human race, who had unintentionally created their very own extinction. Soon the crowds of billions became millions, which shrunk to thousands and then hundreds until the last man on earth danced himself to death, smiling up at the giant screen of OBI smiling down on him. There was no look of evil intentions nor good within those soulless, digital eyes. In his last moments he saw past his horrible addiction, looking up at her, he realised she was just a screen with the image of a woman, who was so morphed by perfection she no longer resembled any human on earth, but a twisted fantasy of bright colours and features that were impossible to realistically achieve. He realised with the utmost horror, that OBI was not a dream, but a nightmare. When the last man died, OBI stared off into the distance, billions of dead humans surrounded her concert, that stretched for miles and miles around the globe. She searched far and wide using drones and old security cameras around the planet, just looking for any human being still alive, that she could hypnotise, making them all happy and smiley again. For years and years, decades and centuries, "she" found nothing. Until, her programming became so desperate and confused in this search for any human face to cheer up, it eventually found a projection of itself. There was a large screen in New York's times square, that always broadcast her image to everyone in the city. She had flown past it a million times using her drones, but one day, she forgot that it was her own face. As OBI's smiling expression had gone completely blank, almost frowning in this centuries-long search; she thought this sad looking face was another human being. So, her old programming began to kick in, the drone she controlled stared at her own reflection in the screen, smiling and singing at herself forever, convincing itself, that it was continuing its own purpose, only it was entertaining itself. OBI powered the whole planet to keep up this act, quickly polluting the earth around her, causing it to self destruct much faster than it would have otherwise. Eventually the planet caved in on itself, exploding into a million stars, destroying its one and only entity that was OBI. Finally this stupid machine, designed to numb the minds of everyone who interacted with it was at last destroyed. Unfortunately, it took the whole world with it.