2024/01/15

Media Scholar Ariana Dongus Puts Feminist Chatbot in Perspective

“Rather than a tool for dominance, akin to practices like data-driven racial profiling by law enforcement, it serves as a repository for quotations from diverse voices, generating a collective feminist intelligence rooted in diversity.”
– Media scholar Ariana Dongus, describing #SOPHYGRAY, a feminist chatbot created by German artist Nadja Verena Marcin. Noting how the bot “gradually reveals and challenges female stereotypes,” Dongus situates it in a broader history of erased labour and gendered computing.
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