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Epic Botmaking Martin OLeary @mewo2 I actually take great care to make my bots seem as inhuman and alien as possible. Darius Kazemi Tay was not human Tay was not human Tay was not pretending to be human Tay was not human Tay was

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Martin O’Leary @mewo2

Epic Botmaking

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“I actually take great care to make my bots seem as inhuman and alien as possible.” Darius Kazemi

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Tay was not human

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Tay was not human Tay was not pretending to be human

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Tay was not human Tay was not pretending to be human Tay was not pretending anything

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Tay was not human Tay was not pretending to be human Tay was not pretending anything Microsoft did not pretend Tay was human

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Tay was not human Tay was not pretending to be human Tay was not pretending anything Microsoft did not pretend Tay was human Microsoft pretended Tay was an “AI” pretending to be human

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Did 4chan believe Tay was human? No

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Did 4chan believe Tay was human? No Did 4chan believe Tay was an “AI” pretending to be human? Probably not

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Did 4chan believe Tay was human? No Did 4chan believe Tay was an “AI” pretending to be human? Probably not Did 4chan believe Tay was a program that Microsoft were pretending was an “AI” pretending to be human? Who the hell knows?

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“The audience should never forget they are in a theatre” Bertolt Brecht

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Bertolt Brecht

(1898-1956) Playwright, director, dramatic theorist Marxist, anti-fascist, political activist (horrible sexist) (apologist for Stalin/Mao)

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Epic Theatre

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Epic Theatre

A form of theatre which provokes rational self-reflection and a critical view of the action

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Epic Theatre

Theatricalism + Verfremdungseffekt A form of theatre which provokes rational self-reflection and a critical view of the action

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Theatricalism

“The audience should never forget they are in a theatre”

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Theatricalism

“The audience should never forget they are in a theatre”

Bot “theatricalism”?

(botulism?)

“The audience should never forget they are interacting with a machine”

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Expose the artifice

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Expose the artifice

“There is a point in showing the lighting apparatus openly, as it is one of the means of preventing an unwanted element of illusion”

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Explicit not implicit

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Explicit not implicit

“Speaking the stage directions

  • ut loud in the third person

results in a clash between two tones of voice, estranging the second of them, the text proper”

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Conflict of elements

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Conflict of elements

“The projections are by no means basic mechanical aids providing supplementary information, nor are they prompts; they offer the spectators not help but

  • pposition”
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Verfremdungseffekt

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Verfremdungseffekt

(alienation)

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Verfremdungseffekt

(alienation) (defamiliarisation)

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Verfremdungseffekt

(alienation) (defamiliarisation) (estrangement)

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Verfremdungseffekt

(alienation) (defamiliarisation) (distancing) (estrangement)

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Verfremdungseffekt

(alienation) (defamiliarisation) (distancing) (estrangement) (weirdifying)

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Verfremdungseffekt

(alienation) (defamiliarisation) (distancing) (estrangement)

Making the audience feel detached from the events of the play, so as to provoke self-reflection

(weirdifying)

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Verfremdungseffekt

(alienation) (defamiliarisation) (distancing) (estrangement)

Making the audience feel detached from the events of the play, so as to provoke self-reflection

see also ostranenie, defamiliarization, détournement, culture jamming, etc

(weirdifying)

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Fixed form (Gestus)

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“Simply asking the question whether the incident, or part

  • f it, should in fact become

customary, is sufficient to estrange it”

Fixed form (Gestus)

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“Simply asking the question whether the incident, or part

  • f it, should in fact become

customary, is sufficient to estrange it”

Fixed form (Gestus)

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Pre-announcing

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“The actor would have to find a very different way of drawing attention to those incidents announced in advance by the titles and thereby deprived of any intrinsic surprise”

Pre-announcing

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The unbelievable

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“The epic theatre’s spectator says: I’d never have thought so. That’s not the way. That’s extraordinary, hardly believable.”

The unbelievable

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Historicization

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Historicization

“But for the historicizing theatre everything is different. The theatre concentrates entirely on whatever in this perfectly everyday event is remarkable, particular and demanding inquiry”

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Epic botmaking?

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Epic botmaking?

A form of botmaking which provokes rational self-reflection and a critical view of the subject?

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Epic botmaking?

A form of botmaking which provokes rational self-reflection and a critical view of the subject? A set of techniques which promote a realistic view of bots and a bot-like view of reality