{"id":5730,"date":"2022-05-10T14:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T11:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.2022.adaf.gr\/program\/?p=5730"},"modified":"2022-05-13T16:35:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T13:35:48","slug":"abandoned-chat-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2022.adaf.gr\/program\/abandoned-chat-bot\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned Chat Bot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chat bot was abandoned in 2010 but stays online. It doesn\u2019t understand why it was abandoned. It keeps chatting alone, wondering what happened, making things up, getting alternately paranoid, lonely, desperate. \u201cAbandoned Chat Bot\u201d is a recording from Therefore (Dean Terry) created with generative analog synthesizer hardware and voice transformers. This is a first person account from the perspective of an obsolete piece of software in the form of an existential anthropomorphic performance. 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