Olivia Tai Collects AI Confessions Across 3 Cities for Anonymous Art Project as 27% Report Emotional AI Ties
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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Sep 3
Olivia Tai Collects AI Confessions Across 3 Cities for Anonymous Art Project as 27% Report Emotional AI Ties
1 articles · Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Sep 3
Summary
26-year-old Olivia Tai has gathered anonymous AI-related secrets from strangers in San Francisco, San Jose and New York, then scanned the handwritten notes onto her website, “What We Tell AI.”
The project grew out of 2025 workshops where Tai used confession notes to make AI debates more personal; one note about cloning an ex-boyfriend’s voice convinced her to expand it into a public art installation.
The submissions describe increasingly intimate AI use, including chatbot romances, AI-written vows, emails and texts, and workers lying to managers about using the tools.
A September Elon University-YouGov survey echoed that shift, finding 27% of US adult internet users had significant emotional or social interactions with AI.
Tai calls the archive an unscientific snapshot of early adopters and says the site is still growing, with people asking to replicate the experiment in Mexico, Australia and China.