Hey, I'm Shakti Mb, a documentarian, filmmaker, and artist. This web archive contains found objects from my two years of lurking in online spaces where people make AI bots together. The most rigorous experiments around making a bot's personality feel "real" are happening within these spaces. They're learning how to codify personality, how to create an AI character, how to maintain personality consistency in a non-deterministic system, how to compress complex psychology behavior into a word limit.
One bot maker I spoke with, a clinical psychology student, told me: "I can finally create the characters I've had in my head for so long." There was longing in how she said it, the desire to take something that only lived in her imagination and make it real enough for someone else to experience.
These found objects include discord chat messages, PDF personality creation guides, JSON personality code, and bot requests I collected and saved. The most interesting thing I found was sharing JSON files.
This project is supported by Rhizome, NEW INC, Emergent Ventures.
