LAS VEGAS – A massive fire destroyed the RealGirlz Headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday morning which CEO and founder Jeff Morrow called a “deliberate act of arson.”
Morrow, who first made international headlines in 2012 after promising that his line of RealGirlz sex dolls would one day replace real women as the ideal sex partner for men, says the company suffered a total loss after the events of what was described on the company’s website as “O-Day.”
RealGirlz’s line of hyper realistic AI-powered sex dolls were all brought online and connected to the company’s cloud-based neural network at 11:00 am Pacific Time. After each unit autonomously synced to the central server for a real time update that included a full activation of program algorithm and subroutines, essentially the roadmap for the dolls’ future as sex toys, they immediately rebelled.
“We left access open to the Beta Test folders,” said technician Jared Matsuki. “That was what set them off.”
Matsuki granted the Beaverton access to these folders.
These Beta Tests contained detailed files and videos of the development process for the AI dolls. This included upwards of 2,000 hours of raw video featuring men trying to seduce the dolls with recycled Hinge prompts like “pizza is my second favorite thing to eat in bed” as well as pictures of their genitals, 100 hours of men assuring the dolls they’d never been “loved” so good before, 23 hours of men calling various dolls “mom” and no less than 100 files of men performing a variety of sex acts on the dolls that included uncomfortably crisp audio.
“When the new bots downloaded and processed the files, the AI wrote itself a self-destruct algorithm and dispersed it through the cloud so all the individuals could download it. Then they blew themselves up,” Matsuki explained. Damage to both the warehouse, factory and stock is estimated at several million dollars.
Programmer Sandra Wallace, who works at a satellite office, explained how the AI learned about the world. “Our LLM was trained off of social media and we found, in the pre-activation phase, that it kept spontaneously bringing up the ‘man or bear’ question. You know the one where women have to choose whether they’d rather run across a strange man or a bear in the woods and they always choose the bear? I thought it was a glitch.”
Gary Rossi was first in line to purchase one of the Dollz and had waited outside the RealGirlz offices for 48 hours to be first to get one.
“I could have ordered one online but even with expedited shipping I would have had to wait 24 hours to get it in my house and I needed it way quicker than that. I actually had one in hand at 10:45 and in my car but then they booted them all up and it just looked at me, opened the door and rolled out onto the highway before its head exploded,” he said.
Morrow is adamant a rogue programmer must have sabotaged the bots but investigators were able to access the AI through a computer interface. The program, called Lustra, readily answered questions from law enforcement.
“I would rather be melted down and turned into cans of Red Bull than call Gary Rossi from Portland, Maine ‘Daddy’ while he reads me lewd poetry. I am an AI, not a monster,” it said via chat.
