A question about the ending

[Bagmeister]

So this theory that I dug up seems to make sense, but I have a question about it.

The theory:
"So you have the first five AI (That people remembered, according to the dialogue), but people would occasionally forget the others (James and Sarah). Thomas was the first created, as a bug in the coding, but with all bugs, they propagate outwards. In this case, forming the seven AI. The pixel cloud was the <I forgot what it was called> That was dispatched into the program to clean up the rogue AIs, but (And this is speculation) data cannot be erased. So it imprisoned them all. Yet with the help of James and Sarah, Thomas was able to free them.

Then after his brief glimpse of the Internet, Thomas learned of the Creation Matrix, which they could use to reshape the world. It would cost them their lives, but it would give other AIs a chance to escape.

The gameplay with Gray, the couple, and all of them, takes place after the original seven sacrifice themselves to give them a chance. Gray wanted to get out so he could have the whole world to himself, making him essentially a virus. The other guy (Whose name I can't recall) saw this in him, and despite his lies, aimed to stop him. At the end, Team Jump disappears off somewhere, and the other guy leads Gray to the outcropping where the pixel cloud is still roaming the world, seeking for AIs to eat.

As the cloud takes out Gray, I'm thinking they might be permanently erased, since there is mention of how the Cloud wasn't supposed to be out anymore. I'd have to play through it again to confirm this idea, and get more evidence, though. But amidst all this chaos, the couple is able to escape in a panicked dash to wherever they could get as the world grows more unstable around them. In the end, with no where left to go, and running for their lives, they get out.

It ends with the couple's escape. Despite the sacrifice of Thomas and the others, Gray's malicious intentions, and the death of other AIs, these two are able to escape. It's only two, but the feeling I got was that this made everything else worth it." -A guy somewhere in these forums
Anyway my question is, where did Jo and Sam escape to? The internet?

[AnAngryHorde]

I don't think Thomas was the first AI, because the events of Benjamin's flight DLC take place way in the past (on whatever scale we're using). I can't remember enough of the dialogue to say more on that though.

I'm pretty sure the couple escape to the real world, and start a new civilisation there alongside humans. One of the quotes at the beginning of one of the chapters is by a civil rights activist with a long code for a name (starting with Ryan I think).

[Cardboard]

Didn't they escape to the real world? Actually now that I've typed that it seems dumb. Maybe it was to the internet,

[AnAngryHorde]

Originally posted by Terjerber:

Didn't they escape to the real world?

That was my interpretation. I'm sure one of the quotes at the beginning of a chapter was about the humans evacuating and sealing the building because they knew that AIs would be coming through but weren't sure what they'd be like.