FOREVER MEETINGS: PETTY TROLLEY PROBLEM

“FOREVER MEETINGS” is a body of work made up of a series of software-driven artworks of endlessly evolving conversations between AI-driven avatars. Built in custom real-time software, each iteration runs fully locally (offline), foregrounding the tendencies of the model itself. Avatars are given opposing personas, a conversational style, and a prompt (for instance: “gossip about whether the nuclear family is anti-feminist”), and the dialogue unfolds until the prompts refresh and a new theme begins. Because the system continuously reshuffles prompts, the dialogue never resolves: it drifts, repeats, contradicts itself, and evolves over time. The fact that the model is locally stored allows the work to act as a time capsule of the moment the model was initially trained, with the prompts dredging through its knowledge base.

This work from the series “PETTY TROLLEY PROBLEM” includes prompts written by the artist about petty scenarios filtered through opposing philosophical orientations.

Artist: Sarah Rothberg

Year created: 2025

Country: USA

Medium: Custom software in embedded sculpture