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Carbon Copy.

A fictional dating website exploring emotional relationships with machine-generated identities.

Carbon Copy — speculative design.
FIG. 01 / CARBON COPY Carbon Copy — speculative design.
PROJECT TYPE
Speculative design
DATE
2022
MEDIUM & METHODS
Speculative Design / Generative AI / Web Design

A more humane way to date?

Carbon Copy is a fictional dating website exploring relationships between humans and machine-generated human content. It asks how technology might be used to fulfil emotional needs.

Profiles made by machines

The project used data from a social app with GPT-2 to generate artificial profiles, and DALL·E 2 to create profile images. These profiles form a speculative setting for considering attraction, intimacy, and artificial identities.

What do we seek in a virtual partner?

As generative systems enter increasingly personal parts of everyday life, Carbon Copy asks how people might respond to potential partners created by machines.