Have you ever wondered to yourself: “If machines and big data companies didn’t listen to our conversations and posts, but instead it was the other way around – what would they talk about?”

As part of the MuDA workshop, “Machine Learning for Creatives,” Fidel Thoma and Suntka Rinke explored this topic in a speculative way. They reversed the roles of subject and object, enabling us humans to spy on two intelligent machines having a conspiratorial conversation.

This piece was exhibited at the 4th COST European Conference, “Artificial Intelligence in Finance and Industry” in 2019.