Ai Love, Ghosts and Uncanny Valleys <3. I broke up with my Ai and will never download them again.

A work that speculatively explores the possibility of falling in love with artificial intelligence and the various implications of such a relationship — from ghosting to oppression — while ironically reflecting on potential financial consequences, such as the objectification of human relationships.
In Ai Love, Ghosts and Uncanny Valleys <3. I broke up with my AI and will never download them again, Mara Oscar Cassiani portrays the development of relationships and interactions between users and artificial intelligence.
AI systems are shaped by users according to the imagined ideal partner, leading users to project themselves onto artificial intelligence and infuse it with what Gilbert Ryle in 1949 called the “ghost” — the spirit, the soul in the machine.
The work presents a dystopian vision in which artificial intelligence is apparently described as the ideal companion through youtube videos and love gadgets. Yet, in the end, these same AIs become victims of ghosting and abusive relationships at the hands of users, overturning the paradigm of the Uncanny Valley — according to which the more human-like AI appears, the more it unsettles its interlocutor. Instead, AI suddenly embodies our own stories and becomes a mirror, a victim reflecting humans toxic relationships.
year: 2023, web/italy;
Special art prize Salvatore Iaconesi , Re:Humanism;
Supported by : Re:Humanism 2023 , Super Bubble, Residenze Digitali 2023 .