Matheus Montanari

Artificial stupidity is an experiment to understand the perception of non-human agents in the context of protests during the pandemic of covid-19 in Brazil. For this, the recorded audios were processed by an audio transcription program that uses artificial intelligence to transcribe the audio into text.

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During the protests, some words are lost in the air and the system makes unusual readings of what is said. In a kind of artificial-dada-poetry, the audios are transformed into text by the sensitive perception of electronic devices that were the great mediators of the social isolation period.