AI OF HATE
AI OF HATE
Video Projection by Syd Krochmalny
February 26th, 2025
This intervention is a critical reflection on the mechanisms that amplify hate and misinformation in the digital age, exposing the technological infrastructures that sustain and propagate them. The video projection presents four poems from Click, Hate and Repeat—"Build That Wall," "Faggots Burn Best," "The Algorithm March," and "January 6th"—narrated through an AI text-to-voice generator using cloned voices inspired by emblematic figures of digital-era populist and polarizing political discourse: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Kanye West.
By merging poetry and technology, this performance dismantles the boundaries between political rhetoric and algorithmic automation, exposing how digital infrastructures prioritize and amplify narratives that foster division and polarization. The work exposes the insidious role of fake news, information bubbles, and echo chambers, reinforcing a continuous cycle of misinformation and hostility.
Creation Process: From Archive to Poem
This project stems from an extensive process of collecting and analyzing hate speech, misinformation, and digital propaganda extracted from social media, news outlets, and internet forums. From this documentary base, an archive of discourse patterns was compiled and transformed into structured poems, organized to expose the inner logics of digital verbal violence. These texts were later narrated by artificial intelligence, using cloned voices that mimic the tone of institutional speeches, corporate conferences, and political manifestos, creating an overlapping of registers that underscores the aestheticization and normalization of hostility in the public sphere.
This contextual displacement generates a profound sense of estrangement: what initially presents itself as institutional rhetoric transforms into a subversive act, unveiling the aestheticization and normalization of digital violence.
Towards a New Stage of Disinformation and Political Simulation
In a constantly evolving context, the work positions itself at the intersection of present and future, incorporating new ideas about the evolution of information manipulation technologies, including emerging phenomena such as digital hyperreality, the automation of disinformation through conversational AI, and the consolidation of closed information ecosystems within metaverses and decentralized platforms.
AI generates synthetic narratives that manipulate history and distort reality, merging deepfakes, fabricated data, and advanced language models to seamlessly alter both past and present.
The ease of generating manipulated images and voices redefines the perception of truth, facilitating the spread of fictional testimonies and deceptive narratives with unsettling fluidity. In an environment where artificial intelligence is solidifying, algorithms not only prioritize emotionally provocative content but also refine themselves to anticipate and shape public responses, intensifying polarization. Furthermore, the emergence of advanced generative models enables the automatic creation of persuasive and personalized content, further amplifying the dynamics of manipulation and information segmentation. The integration of emerging technologies gives rise to hybrid discourses that merge the digital and the human, questioning the boundaries between authenticity and invention. AI not only clones voices but also simulates intentions and generates alternative political narratives, amplifying the influence of polarizing discourse through algorithmic personalization.
A Poetic Machine That Exposes the Logic of Hate
The intervention moves from the rawness of digital media comments to an aesthetic and formal reflection on systematic hate, the circulation of fake news, and the new technologies shaping public discourse. Each verse becomes a component of a "poetic machine" that scrutinizes and reconstructs the ways hate speech replicates in virtual spaces, creating a haunting dialogue between the human and the automated.
This performance invites the audience to question not only the role of algorithms in amplifying emotionally provocative content but also how fake news and echo chambers shape our perception of the world. It is a call to awaken a critical awareness of the processes that, through technology, reinforce divisions, generate an endless spiral of polarization, and reconfigure the social fabric under automated logics.
Each projection creates an immersive experience that highlights the theatricalization of power and the manipulation of language in a digital ecosystem saturated with stimuli and misinformation. The work operates at the threshold between the real and the synthetic, deploying a choreography of cloned voices that amplify hate speech, eroding the boundaries between representation and the effective manipulation of political discourse. The performance does not merely display a narrative structure but actively deconstructs it, exposing the mechanics of polarizing rhetoric and its impact on contemporary subjectivity. It is embedded in the exploration of global discourses and their influence on collective perception, using technology as a medium of dislocation and estrangement. Beyond a simple projection, the performance confronts and disrupts the audience, transforming the space into a site of rhetorical warfare where language becomes both weapon and arena, a manifestation of the symbolic violence underpinning contemporary public discourse.