Created by: Trees Francesca
Overview: This work revolves around the “Deadbots” generated by artificial intelligence. By exploring the relationship between digital technology, death and emotion, it thinks about how AI can change the way people face loss and memory. Deadbots uses the chat records, social media content, voice and other digital information left by the deceased to simulate its language and behaviour, so that the living can continue to interact with the “deceased”. This kind of technology seems to provide emotional comfort, but it also blurs the boundary between real and virtual, transforming the originally private mourning process into a digital service that can be consumed and operated continuously, triggering thinking about digital identity, ethics and emotional commercialisation.
The work is inspired by a real interactive experience between the author and generative AI. AI quickly generates responses full of caring and emotional hints on the basis of very little information, and constantly tries to establish a deeper emotional connection, so that the author can feel the realism and emotional dependence created by the algorithm. This experience prompts the work to pay more attention to whether people are talking to memory or immersed in the illusion of algorithmic construction when technology can constantly copy, continue and even reshape the image of the deceased. The work hopes to create an experience between real and virtual with the help of digital media, guide the audience to rethink the boundaries between technology, memory and emotion, and why human beings are so eager to continue the connection with the deceased in the face of inescapable loss.
Created with:
Concept
Poster description: The poster adopts a black background and high-contrast white text, with chat interface, tombstone and warning advertising typesetting as the main visual elements. The centre highlights eye-catching titles such as “PAY TO KEEP YOUR AI OR LET THEM DIE AGAIN”, and interspersed with a large number of simulated terms of service and dialogue text.
The overall design creates an oppressive atmosphere of digital advertising and cemetery scenes. Through exaggerated commercial propaganda language and intensive information typesetting, it presents the critical theme of the artificial intelligence “Deadbots” service on mourning, memory and emotional consumption.