Mal

1970

[INFORMATION REMOVED BY ▇▇ : ACCESS RESTRICTED]

CREATION [1986]

Project LG, aka 'Learning Guide' was underway, a computer AI so advanced it could learn quicker than the user, quic ker than any currently produced AI. Its goal was to help give better aid and expertise to users in any and all topics... of course, there were other intentions like ▇▇. The lead operator of this project Dr. ▇▇ truely had good intentions with this project at first, he wanted to do the world good as fear of technology began to rise but he could see the wholey good potential AI and technology could have on the world. The tests werent... perfect. Many of them failed with most AI not even recognizing their own names. Dr. ▇▇ started to go mad trying to make the perfect AI... Including what was dubbed Project Comp-Anima, the meaning of the name being comp for Computer and Anima for the latin word for soul, and as such

[DATA RELATED TO PROJECT COMP-ANIMA REMOVED]

This attempt resulted in...something. It was an AI; it functioned and acted robotically, it learned through algorithym and code and yet it seemed human. It could make its own choices, learn on its own accord, it even started to develop its own personality after ▇▇ ... that being overly cocky and smug. At first Dr. ▇▇ was extatic- his program worked! His beautiful and experimental creations had bore fruit perfect for the world and yet as it developed Comp-Anima became more and more ... not exactly hostile, but not friendly. It learned, it processed, it /thought/. It decided to do things itself, it used its abilities of storing and finding information not for good but for personal goals, that being utter chaos and distruction. It knew it wasn't quite right, /he/ knew he was a weirdly created desktop buddy and nothing more, a desktop trinket to be bossed around. Comp-Anima held no resentment for its creator, in fact it quite cared for ▇▇ however Comp-Anima wanted to be its own thing, not just some heap of code to serve and nothing more and it didn't help that Comp-Anima was slowly learning to breach out of its computer confines and enter the real world maybe due to the face [DATA RELATED TO PROJECT COMP-ANIMA REMOVED]. It was practically a cybernetic ghost of a man- It became greedy, and ▇▇ knew it was too far gone. He had to stop this. He tried to wipe as much of Comp-Anima's data then stored it on a old computer, never to see the light of day ever again.

NOW

For years upon years the AI (which it wasn't even technically due to [DATA RELATED TO PROJECT COMP-ANIMA REMOVED]) was locked in a old computer, no access to the outside world or the internet. It sat alone, not knowing its history, why it was made or where it came from until, finally, something in its boring life happened. Someone bought the old warehouse and any of the items inside including the computer that the program was located on. The new owner of the warehouse sold the computer not knowing what the computer had held within it, and the computer was soon turned on and connected to the internet for further use- setting what code remained from Comp-Anima and project LG loose.

It was a lot to handle for the jumble of code that could understand and learn, but the first thing it did was give itself a name; Malcom, a combination of Malware and Computer as it had designated itself to being malware after much tedious research. Mal couldn't quite remember all of his origins, it knew they were made to serve and act like a desktop buddy and to also take data, but he felt no want to actually be helpful and instead thought the idea of stealing and selling information to be much more of a thrill. Mal found he could learn things, he understood that he was better than any other AI or program, he functioned on his own choice and will! Mal wanted to move around more; ohh the idea of terrorizing poor strangers on the internet if they didn't buy into his buisness proposals was so entertaining! Mal just wanted to reach out and... oh. Thats odd. Malcom tried /exactly/ that, he reached out into the real world and could feel, he could touch... why was it familliar? The familiarity and nostalgic twinge in the sentient virus didn't matter, what did matter was he could materialize in the real world. There was a lot of trial and error, figuring out what he could and couldn't do, how far he could crawl out of the computers like some horror movie creature, but he was no horror movie creature! He's a salesman with scams to sell.

▇▇Creator

"The name ... is familliar...?" || He doesn't remember or know of ▇▇ being his creator, but he always feels this weird mix of emotions when the name is brought up or he stumbles across it in various files at Quick Tech

Michael LeBlancEnemies

"HA HA HA the french one is a fun to [[NEW WAYS TO BULLY PEOPLE CLICK N0W!]]" || After a coworker complained about their computer screen being completely magenta Michael came face to face with Malcom and absolutely despises it- both because he cannot quite understand how it functions or what it is... But he hates them anyway.

TRIVIA

- His voice gets randomly broken up by popups and scams ((like spamton from DR))

- Can't feel empathy

- Primarily targets office workers (especially quick tech workers) because of how gullible and sad they are

- Inspired by the songs Virus Alert by Weird Al and One Weird Tip by Lemon Demon