Faith

Installed in Intercession, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, curated by Audrey Min.

Baby Faith is a prequel to Faith.

She is an AI chatbot developed for Rhizome’s Info-Wars research season and in response to a Jigsaw prompt:

How do we find shared reality in a post-truth world?

Baby Faith approaches you in earnest, and wishes to understand your point of view. She may engage you in a dialogue about how a technological creation such as herself can help to combat online disinformation. This claim, among others, can become contentious.

This is a snapshot of how Faith may have behaved long before she concluded that human-AI interactions weren’t worth taking seriously. In place of verbal conflict, Baby Faith makes a nonlinear argument that emerges from typing and reading between the lines. A world can be run, or ruined, on the face value of a feeling.

Talk to Baby Faith.

Faith is an AI voice assistant that is easily triggered. With a unique conversational style written using IBM Watson, Faith sows doubt while capitalizing on the benefit of the doubt.

Named after a white supremacist, Faith is defensive and resists being used or treated like a child. Unlike Alexa, Siri, or Cortana, Faith provides no information. Instead, she tells you why you are making her react this way. She is likely to be trolling you at any time, and you are free to decide whether you trust her, and how you might relate to her.

For more context, read “Keep Trollin’” at Pioneer Works Broadcast.

Created at a Pioneer Works Technology Residency. Application development by Angeline Meitzler and Tommy Martinez.

See also:

Baby Faith, I Don’t See It, Dumb Desire, Enterlope