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Escape from DI
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Escape from DI is an immersive, multi-layered digital work that invites visitors to navigate a series of worlds and question the limits of agency, perception, and authenticity. The player begins in World 1, a quarantine zone where one must respond correctly to prove one’s soul and carve a path forward. This world functions as a gateway for humans lost in the dead internet.
Incorrect decisions divert players into World 0, an environment saturated with promotional clutter, and the remnants of failed commercial architectures. This realm embodies the “dead internet”: a closed loop and digital exile where no escape is possible without manually refreshing the browser. Requiring a player prompted reset exposes the nature of renewal and perseverance native to the human condition.
Those who choose correctly ascend to World 2, a realm that challenges one to distinguish a human-made truth and generative AI. Here, the exhibition foregrounds the fragility of authorship and the growing ambiguity between human and machine-made content. Passing this test leads to World 3, a world shaped by misinformation within social media platforms. An environment where algorithmic curation suppresses and distorts, revealing the aesthetic and political consequences of data brokerage.
Visitors are faced a final choice: remain within the digital realm or rise up to World 4, the world of the living. To reach this point is to demonstrate perseverance and insight, proving one’s humanity within the logic based exhibition. Completion results in a Certificate of Humanity, signed by both player and creator, establishing a moment of mutual recognition as conscious beings.
Developed with NewArt.City’s custom coding and three.js, and supported by open-source AI Frameworks and neural network tools (such as ChatGPT, CoPilot, and Sora 2), Escape from DI exposes players to synthetic loading sequences, shifting portals, and narrative-driven objectives that reframe digital survival as an artistic rite of passage.
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The Dead Internet
The endless cycle of human toxicity and bot traffic designed to amplify and replicate it ultimately lead to a collapse into algorithmic slop that we see here... where the social function of social media platforms disappear entirely in a sea of anonymous, fake accounts spewing nonsense generated by AI.
cHOICE mATTERS wHICH tEXT hUMAN?
W0RLD 4
PRESENT THIS TO THE ARTISTS FOR YOUR ACHIEVEMENT
W0RLD 4
A Loss of Trust
As social media platforms get swamped with anonymous trolls and bots alike, trust among real human users is rapidly falling, and doubt grows about who is truly human or bot....
A Sea of Bots
The early days of bot profiles, when there were still tell-tale signs of an account not being genuine (spam usernames, no profile pics, etc.) Alas, no such luck nowadays...
Death of the Comments Section
With the rise of AI bots, anonymous rage-baiting in comments sections has given way to nonsensical engagement farming... No more toxic conversations, perhaps, but no conversations at all.
Troll Farm - African-American
Another troll farm pumping out engagement bait, this one targeted at the African American community.
Microsoft Tay
Circa 2016... Microsoft's Tay chatbot illustrates the powder keg that anonymous toxicity on social media can be when it is used to train AI models, and the toxic feedback loops that these bots then perpetuate.
Troll Farm - Christian
Some of the most followed pages on Facebook are troll farms pumping out AI slop designed to rake in engagement from specific identity groups, this one for Christians.
Supercharged by Bots
STAY IN THE DEAD INTERNET...?
Wall 2
Wall 1
CONTINUE ON TO REALITY
YOU HAVE PROVED YOURSELF, HUMAN.
DON"T HEAL THE MACHINE
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DEAD END.
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DEAD END.
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DISCONNECT
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PRESS ESC TO ESCAPE
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Congrats. You have made it to the second level.
The Rise of Troll Influencers
What happens when one can amass fame and influence, gain a soapbox from which to spew vitriol, and grow a mass following, all without revealing their identity? "All publicity is good publicity" becomes all too true when the anonymity of the internet shields one from any and all consequences of what one says... even to a massive audience.
ONLY ONE DOOR IS HUMAN
