The Social Dilemma (AI manipulates Ben) | Database of Machine Vision in Art, Games and Narratives

Brief description

The social media AI is personified as three men (played by same actor) who manipulate human teenager "Ben" into spending more time on social media. "Within" the AI the AI is portrayed as real humans, and Ben is portrayed as a hologram/Augmented reality. The AI interfaces with multiple visual technologies in order to manipulate Ben.

Pull Quotes

"I can predict what kind of videos will keep you watching. I can predict what kinds of emotions tend to trigger you."

"There are 13694 people behaving just like him in his region."

Work that the situation appears in

Title	Publication Type	Year	Creator
The Social Dilemma	Narrative, Movie	2020	Jeff Orlowski

Who does what?

This character

Is

This technology

Is

This technology

Is

This character

A.I. (The Social Dilemma)

Is

Aesthetic characteristics

Dystopian

Dark

Colours

Blue

Machine P.O.V

Machine P.O.V.

Record Status

Two or more people have agreed upon this

Notes

- We decided on seeing "augmented Ben" as an AR representation, and not just part of the AI. -R

As the second quote references the AI is able to predict Ben's behavior because he is similar to others. This implies profiling and classifying people into types that are similar or not. This is also one of the main points of the documentary, hence, I added classifying/classified for this situation (Linda)

Authored by

Edward

UUID

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