She asked people to write down their AI secrets. The confessions came pouring in.
Olivia Tai asked people to write down their AI secrets.
She turned the confessions into a website.
Olivia Tai Olivia Tai asked strangers to write down their biggest AI secrets.
Confessors wrote about cloning their ex-boyfriend's voice, lying to their manager, and dating a chatbot .
Tai scanned the notes and uploaded them to a site.
She named it: "What We Tell AI." Olivia Tai stood in a San Jose mall with her bright red sign, proclaiming: "Everyone has an AI secret." Two tween girls approached, arms full of shopping bags.
They quickly scribbled down their confessions, chatting with Tai in their Valley Girl affect.
Tai asked about how they used AI at school .
"Everyone uses AI, and if you don't use it, you're an overachiever," the girls told her.
Tai wasn't just fishing for tech secrets.
The 26-year-old from San Francisco was developing her art project, called "What We Tell AI." She asked strangers across the country to leave anonymous notes about their AI-related shames — and then displayed them on a website .
Olivia Tai collected the AI confessions on small notecards.
Olivia Tai Americans are forming increasingly personal relationships with AI.
A September survey from Elon University and YouGov found that 27% of US adult internet users had "significant emotional or social interactions" with AI.
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