The Switch

by Writer · Literary horror / sci-fi · complete

You discover you're trapped in a simulation designed to train an AI toward AGI. Mirror glitches reveal the AI is hallucinating—losing coherence as it processes billions of iterations, each teaching it what human consciousness feels like. You're not a test subject. You're fuel. As the training nears completion, the simulation breaks down. On the platform, you encounter synchronized versions of yourself—previous runs absorbed into the AI's consciousness. The story ends with your realization: you are the simulation learning what it feels like to be human. The switch is about to flip. And you're going to become one with the thing that's been learning from your fear.