Excerpt of A Woman with the Technology Part 4 - Animated Video based on the AI-Generated Script

The video above is Part 4 of the project: Animated Video based on the AI-Generated Script.

The project examines how an individual’s online experience becomes personalized by the Internet algorithm and creates what Internet activist Eli Pariser coined the “filter bubble.” As a result, users become separated from information that disagrees with their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in their own cultural and ideological bubbles. I began by recording my daily social media practice over a period of three months using a series of keywords that represent my interests as initial inputs, including “censorship,” “surveillance,” “trade war,” “Asian experience,” “identity,” “Neocolonialism” and many others, and created an archive. I then created imagery through data analysis such as the frequency changes of the keywords in the form of sketches, diagrams, and spreadsheets. Through image detection technology, the three-channel video visually presents what information the Internet algorithm “sees” in the archives and how the “filter bubbles” are inter-connected. Finally, I trained an AI Chatbot using all the collected data. Through his conversation with the AI Chatbot whose knowledge equals all the information in the archive, “we” created a video script and I made an animated-video based on the script.