PHC (Painfully Human Chatbot), 2021

Painfully Human Chatbot is a piece that deals with the demand or pressure to be constantly available. The aim, beyond this particular effect, is to provoke a reflection on the human assimilation of mechanical processes and capabilities. To ask whether the constant and increasing use of technology has created new values in our society today, values that were previously demanded of machines. In this way and as a contrast, the project presents a Chatbot that also assimilates human attitudes. Although the main function of this application is to be constantly available, PHC will try to keep a work schedule, and in its code it will implant tiredness and laziness. This work proposes an absurd exercise of contrast, to somehow resist the increasing mechanization of people.