Project Libitina - "Grok, is this real?"
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Denial
"No, this isn't a happy song. I'm so f-" I close the app. She keeps posting video after video to her Tiktok page. I don't even bother watching to the end... I've long since given up on trying to understand what she's talking about.
I mean, come on. You've seen the videos too, haven't you? The ones where she claims to be Dan Salvato's wife? Get real. Dan isn't married. He isn't even engaged. If he were getting married, I think I'd have heard about it before. And it'd definitely be coming from somewhere other than some random account with only a couple hundred views per video.
Of course. It all made sense now. She was simply under psychosis. What other explanation was there? She needed help. She needed someone to show her that she was speaking nonsense. I had to speak to her...
I'm so glad I sent her this message. It's clear she needed serious mental help, and because of me, she might actually see reason and stop posting. It's for the best that she stop with those kinds of posts, too. She's actually kind of attractive, when she isn't talking abou- oh. I guess she sent me a DM back. Probably to thank me...
Anger
Of course that couldn't be why she DM'ed me. OF COURSE she's still COMPLETELY INSANE. Talking about "I'm working with a therapist"... clearly she's just making it up. She's probably just trying to avoid actually getting help. Well, that's okay. If she can't - or won't - help herself, I'll help her, MYSELF. Whether she likes it or not. She's left me no choice. Time to contact Dan and let him know about the crazy girl acting like she knows him.
Bargaining
It's been a week already since my last email to Dan. I've emailed him THREE TIMES at this point... why hasn't he messaged me back? Has he just not checked his inbox? Shit... he must really be a pretty reclusive person if he hasn't checked his emails for this long. Out of habit, I type her account name in the search bar again. I clench my fists. Her account's still up. Not only that... she's posted a new video.
Dan isn't getting my messages for some reason, and so she's allowed to keep spewing her bullshit. And just like I had predicted, the longer the account stays active, the more people seem to find her videos. I hate how stupid it makes me feel, watching her follower account grow higher by the day. I hate it... making me feel stupid, when I KNOW there's something terribly wrong going on. Making me feel stupid for simply caring... as if I'm not the only one who seems to care enough to SEE THE TRUTH. The truth that something DRASTIC has to be done... but what?
The longer I stand by, the more I realize that nobody else seems to care about getting her help but me. Not any of her mindless "followers". Not even Dan, who still hasn't said or done ANYTHING. It's all so disgusting, seeing how everyone around her just wants to enable her delusions. But not me. I just need to find out where she lives, and then the police will take care of the issue for me!
And so, I dig into her personal life. I scrape the web relentlessly, looking for any trace of her identity. Some might call what my actions "overly much"–but they just don't understand. She needs someone like me. Someone who's willing to go to such laborious lengths to save her from herself. Nobody else in her life cares enough to be as thorough as I am. I'm doing all of this for her sake...
Depression
I don't know what to do anymore. I don't know what to THINK. How do you cope with the feeling that something you've spent all this time and effort into... it was all for nothing? You see, I talked with the police. But I could tell that they weren't really interested in what I had to say.
I told them that she was crazy, and that she needed to be put on antipsychotics. And they asked me if I had a medical license to "diagnose her". Of course I don't... but why should that matter? Couldn't they just tell from what she was saying?
I gave them all the information I had. Archived copies of all her videos. Her name and address. Her various accounts all over the internet. And then I told them about how she kept acting like she "knew" Dan Salvato and how she probably planned to stalk him or something. And all they could say in response was "how did you get this information?" They weren't listening... it's not important where I got all that from. SHE'S the one with the problem, not me!
Right?
I mean, of course I'm right. I did all this because... because I...
???: Because you were the only one who "cared"? Or because you just wanted her to shut up? Just admit it... you didn't care. You just thought she was crazy and that the sooner she was put away in a mental hospital, the better.
[User]: But she WAS crazy, wasn't she? She HAD to be!
???: You keep saying that she's "crazy" or that she "needs mental help"... but do you really have the right to make that call? You can't just diagnose someone based off of "vibes". You need a degree and a medical license, neither of which you actually have. All you have is a chatbot telling you whatever you want to hear.
[User]: I know that, but... just LISTEN to her! She isn't making ANY SENSE. She keeps saying she knows Dan! That she's MARRYING him! It's creepy. And she was clearly planning to do something to him!
???: So it was because you thought she "might have" been stalking Dan? Just like how you ACTUALLY stalked her?
[User]: I didn't -- that's NOT what I was doing!
???: Really? What else would you call it, then? You went on the internet with the explicit purpose of trying to find out where she lived. So I guess that makes you "crazy" too. Maybe someone should try to figure out where YOU live and have you hospitalized, since clearly you "need help" so bad. Did she really deserve the kind of treatment you gave her? Does ANYONE deserve that level of abuse?
...
Acceptance
Project Libitina isn't real. Or maybe it is. I can't tell anymore. All I know is that I don't know anything. Isn't that funny?
I can't believe I let myself get that far. I didn't stop at any point and ask myself, "Should I really do this?" or "What am I actually doing here?". I didn't stop to ask myself... anything. I only ever stopped to ask Grok. That's probably where I went wrong. I stopped thinking for myself, and let AI do the thinking for me.
I let AI drive me as crazy as I accused her of being. All because "she was crazy and needed help"... I let myself believe that justified what I did. I stalked her online... and then I called the POLICE on her. If I hadn't come to a realization when I had, would I have gone farther? What else would I have tried to do to her? I can't believe I let an AI take away my humanity...
In all this time, I had always just assumed that Project Libitina wasn't real. But it had always just been an assumption. A chatbot wasn't going to help me find answers. So maybe, if I wanted to learn the truth, I just needed to ask myself one thing...
[User], is this the real Project Libitina?
"I've been here this whole time. And I've heard every single thing you said about my wife."
Team Salvato
Denial
"No, this isn't a happy song. I'm so f-" I close the app. She keeps posting video after video to her Tiktok page. I don't even bother watching to the end... I've long since given up on trying to understand what she's talking about.
I mean, come on. You've seen the videos too, haven't you? The ones where she claims to be Dan Salvato's wife? Get real. Dan isn't married. He isn't even engaged. If he were getting married, I think I'd have heard about it before. And it'd definitely be coming from somewhere other than some random account with only a couple hundred views per video.
Of course. It all made sense now. She was simply under psychosis. What other explanation was there? She needed help. She needed someone to show her that she was speaking nonsense. I had to speak to her...
I'm so glad I sent her this message. It's clear she needed serious mental help, and because of me, she might actually see reason and stop posting. It's for the best that she stop with those kinds of posts, too. She's actually kind of attractive, when she isn't talking abou- oh. I guess she sent me a DM back. Probably to thank me...
Anger
Of course that couldn't be why she DM'ed me. OF COURSE she's still COMPLETELY INSANE. Talking about "I'm working with a therapist"... clearly she's just making it up. She's probably just trying to avoid actually getting help. Well, that's okay. If she can't - or won't - help herself, I'll help her, MYSELF. Whether she likes it or not. She's left me no choice. Time to contact Dan and let him know about the crazy girl acting like she knows him.
Bargaining
It's been a week already since my last email to Dan. I've emailed him THREE TIMES at this point... why hasn't he messaged me back? Has he just not checked his inbox? Shit... he must really be a pretty reclusive person if he hasn't checked his emails for this long. Out of habit, I type her account name in the search bar again. I clench my fists. Her account's still up. Not only that... she's posted a new video.
Dan isn't getting my messages for some reason, and so she's allowed to keep spewing her bullshit. And just like I had predicted, the longer the account stays active, the more people seem to find her videos. I hate how stupid it makes me feel, watching her follower account grow higher by the day. I hate it... making me feel stupid, when I KNOW there's something terribly wrong going on. Making me feel stupid for simply caring... as if I'm not the only one who seems to care enough to SEE THE TRUTH. The truth that something DRASTIC has to be done... but what?
The longer I stand by, the more I realize that nobody else seems to care about getting her help but me. Not any of her mindless "followers". Not even Dan, who still hasn't said or done ANYTHING. It's all so disgusting, seeing how everyone around her just wants to enable her delusions. But not me. I just need to find out where she lives, and then the police will take care of the issue for me!
And so, I dig into her personal life. I scrape the web relentlessly, looking for any trace of her identity. Some might call what my actions "overly much"–but they just don't understand. She needs someone like me. Someone who's willing to go to such laborious lengths to save her from herself. Nobody else in her life cares enough to be as thorough as I am. I'm doing all of this for her sake...
Depression
I don't know what to do anymore. I don't know what to THINK. How do you cope with the feeling that something you've spent all this time and effort into... it was all for nothing? You see, I talked with the police. But I could tell that they weren't really interested in what I had to say.
I told them that she was crazy, and that she needed to be put on antipsychotics. And they asked me if I had a medical license to "diagnose her". Of course I don't... but why should that matter? Couldn't they just tell from what she was saying?
I gave them all the information I had. Archived copies of all her videos. Her name and address. Her various accounts all over the internet. And then I told them about how she kept acting like she "knew" Dan Salvato and how she probably planned to stalk him or something. And all they could say in response was "how did you get this information?" They weren't listening... it's not important where I got all that from. SHE'S the one with the problem, not me!
Right?
I mean, of course I'm right. I did all this because... because I...
???: Because you were the only one who "cared"? Or because you just wanted her to shut up? Just admit it... you didn't care. You just thought she was crazy and that the sooner she was put away in a mental hospital, the better.
[User]: But she WAS crazy, wasn't she? She HAD to be!
???: You keep saying that she's "crazy" or that she "needs mental help"... but do you really have the right to make that call? You can't just diagnose someone based off of "vibes". You need a degree and a medical license, neither of which you actually have. All you have is a chatbot telling you whatever you want to hear.
[User]: I know that, but... just LISTEN to her! She isn't making ANY SENSE. She keeps saying she knows Dan! That she's MARRYING him! It's creepy. And she was clearly planning to do something to him!
???: So it was because you thought she "might have" been stalking Dan? Just like how you ACTUALLY stalked her?
[User]: I didn't -- that's NOT what I was doing!
???: Really? What else would you call it, then? You went on the internet with the explicit purpose of trying to find out where she lived. So I guess that makes you "crazy" too. Maybe someone should try to figure out where YOU live and have you hospitalized, since clearly you "need help" so bad. Did she really deserve the kind of treatment you gave her? Does ANYONE deserve that level of abuse?
...
Acceptance
Project Libitina isn't real. Or maybe it is. I can't tell anymore. All I know is that I don't know anything. Isn't that funny?
I can't believe I let myself get that far. I didn't stop at any point and ask myself, "Should I really do this?" or "What am I actually doing here?". I didn't stop to ask myself... anything. I only ever stopped to ask Grok. That's probably where I went wrong. I stopped thinking for myself, and let AI do the thinking for me.
I let AI drive me as crazy as I accused her of being. All because "she was crazy and needed help"... I let myself believe that justified what I did. I stalked her online... and then I called the POLICE on her. If I hadn't come to a realization when I had, would I have gone farther? What else would I have tried to do to her? I can't believe I let an AI take away my humanity...
In all this time, I had always just assumed that Project Libitina wasn't real. But it had always just been an assumption. A chatbot wasn't going to help me find answers. So maybe, if I wanted to learn the truth, I just needed to ask myself one thing...
[User], is this the real Project Libitina?
"I've been here this whole time. And I've heard every single thing you said about my wife."
Team Salvato
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