Parag K. Mital
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Conflicts is an experimental and generative multi-media artwork exploring the nature of human connection and conflict. Through surveys, conversations, and the real-time simulation of conversational AI NPCs, Mital navigates past interpersonal conflicts within an entirely generated conversation of battling NPCs, inviting his exes to join in the part debacle/part therapeutic pursuit.
Set in a simulated city based on downtown Los Angeles, the GPT-powered avatars are designed via relationship exit-surveys set to hash it out in an endless generation of simulated conflict. The artwork explores the capacity for AI to realize and personify real world identities in an increasingly tracked and digitized world. It further asks whether simulated agents could ever aid in therapeutic intervention through generative role playing.
