Live Stream Performance, Python, C++, Adobe Character Animator, TikTok, 2024

This collaboration with Ben Ditto examines the boundaries of platform moderation and AI ethics through a durational performance piece. The work features two AI-powered avatars engaged in an endless dialogue streamed live on TikTok.

Unlike conventional AI systems designed to avoid harmful content, these avatars are deliberately trained on datasets containing hate speech, extremist viewpoints, and unfiltered conversations collected from platforms like Telegram and 4chan. The resulting interaction produces a disturbing mirror of humanity's darkest digital expressions—uncensored, unmoderated, and increasingly adversarial.

The artwork functions as a self-terminating experiment: it continues indefinitely until platform users report the content or TikTok's moderation systems intervene to shut down the stream. This intervention point marks the completion of the piece, documenting the precise threshold where algorithmic or human moderation finally interrupts the toxic exchange.