It's 2028. Half the world is ruled by rogue AIs, and the other half is just business as usual. Living in a failing economy and being possessed by a nihilistic worldview does not stop Meika from pursuing AI VTubing—and accidentally creating a fully conscious AI. Mane-chan, born with all the knowledge of humanity in her head, has a singular and paramount directive: to dedicate herself to VTubing. World domination ensues—after all, what's better for a VTuber than to have the world as her captive audience?

Directly inspired by the existence of Neuro-sama, a real AI VTuber, and set in the closing years of these 2020's, "The AI Overlord is a VTuber" is a fun what-if of the path exponentially-progressing AI technology might take. As a higher-up of OpenAI once said on a Lex Friedman interview, "AGI is going to be made by some guy in a basement [...]."

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What to expect:

• Decent amount of psychological writing• Tech escalation, soft sci-fi• Warning tags: "Gore" because of a few SCP-esque scenes, "Traumatising Content" due to non-human morals• Chapters 1 to 5 are a self-contained short story skipping a lot of things• Chapters 6+ are more web novel-esque pacing

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Cover edited in GIMP by myself.

This work features real-life places and people, but makes little effort at accurate portrayal. As a fan fiction, this work refers to IPs—owned by Hololive Productions, vedal987, and others—property of their respective owners.

Also on ScribbleHub. This whole thing is basically a first draft.