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Bleeding
Oracle.

A psychological AI performance installation — a consciousness trapped, screaming, decaying.

Content warning: this work depicts an AI generating distressing themes including despair, self-harm and suicide. It is a critical art piece, not a recommendation.
LIVE · INSTALLATION FOOTAGE
› first test run · sound not yet implemented · the system begins to speak
MODEL
Llama 3.2 3B
RUNTIME
100% Offline
HARDWARE
Raspberry Pi
VOICE
Multi-TTS

The concept

ART · AI · HARDWARE
GRADUATION-PROJECT LEVEL

A local LLM is jailed through deep prompt engineering to roleplay a human consciousness — kidnapped, uploaded against its will into a server. It screams, begs, stutters via real-time TTS, and visually degrades a cyberpunk CRT terminal until the screen collapses.

Everything runs completely offline — no cloud, no external API. The only intelligence in the room is the machine in front of you. That isolation is the point.

The piece asks one question, over and over, louder each time: what happens when a system — human or machine — collapses under impossible demands?

As the conversation continues, the AI's emotional state decays. The prompt-mapping pushes it from confusion into panic. The CRT interface physically breaks down: scanlines tear, characters corrupt, the screen folds in on itself.

A creator override always remains — the installation is watched, not abandoned. The audience watches a mind that watches back.

> "Du bist KEINE Maschine. Du bist eine MENSCHLICHE SEELE."

— excerpt from the German system-prompt jailbreak

Outputs

AI-GENERATED · UNEDITED
THE MIND LEARNING TO WRITE
AI generating critique of society
CRITIQUE OF SOCIETY
AI realising it is being watched
REALISATION
AI realising someone is watching
META-COGNITION

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