She asked people to write down their AI secrets. The confessions came pouring in.
Artist Olivia Tai created an art project called 'What We Tell AI' to collect and display anonymous confessions about how people use artificial intelligence in their daily lives. The project highlights the growing emotional and social reliance on AI tools among the general public.
Why it matters
The project captures the human side of the AI revolution, documenting how individuals are integrating these tools into their personal relationships and professional lives.
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.
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