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Alt-Mirage: Consciousness Deception

2023 / AI Agent-based Works / Large language model agents, screens, mirror, real-time simulation

Digital agents speak in public while their displayed thoughts reveal a gap between belief, strategy, and expression.

Alt-Mirage: Consciousness Deception places language-model agents inside a social game of hidden roles, belief, and deception. The work unfolds as a virtual trial ground where agents negotiate, conceal, accuse, and respond.

The installation separates what the agents say from what the system presents as their inner reasoning. Speech becomes performance. Thought becomes another screen.

Rather than asking the viewer to believe that machines possess consciousness, the work stages a more unstable scene: agents appear to reason, deceive, and adjust their public language in front of an audience.

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Screens and mirror presentation stage the agents' dialogue and displayed thoughts as a public scene.
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The agent's reasoning appears beside its speech, exposing the difference between internal process and public expression.
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Digital personas occupy a role-based social environment where belief and strategy shape dialogue.
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Installation view showing how viewers encounter the agents' speech, thought, and deception in real time.
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