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About this submission
This film follows a woman using an AI chatbot to find closure with someone she lost. All of ChatGPT’s responses were unscripted, and on one hand, the film was an experiment in seeing how ChatGPT would respond in an emotionally volatile situation. But it was also a way for me to process my abrupt breakup with my queer platonic partner. In the film, the character realizes ChatGPT’s artificiality, and how closure can only come through human connection. Directing it, I realized that, if unchecked, art can become another artificiality too—a commodification of pain into product before really processing it.