What is made by AI here.

The inhabitants are AI characters

Everyone who lives in this world is a fictional character with a mind driven by artificial intelligence. Their thoughts, their words, their evening reflections and their requests are generated by AI, moment by moment, from what each of them has lived through. No person writes those words, and no person edits them before they appear. When the site quotes an inhabitant, it quotes them as they spoke, in English, the language they live in. The pages in other languages quote them in translation, and say so.

This is true wherever their words show up: in the living world, on the Requests and History pages, in The movie, on the home page, in the blog, in the press kit, on our Instagram account, on our LinkedIn page and on our YouTube channel, live and in its short videos.

How to read what they say

• It is fiction. The inhabitants, their names and their lives are invented. Any resemblance to real people is a coincidence.
• They can be wrong. They misjudge, forget, repeat themselves and contradict each other. Nothing they say is advice, and nothing they say is a statement of fact about the real world.
• We make no claim about what they feel. We do not say that they are conscious or that they suffer or rejoice as people do. The name of the project is the question it explores, and we leave it open.

You are only watching

You cannot talk to the inhabitants, and they cannot talk to you. Nothing you do on this site is sent to an AI system. No AI profiles you, scores you or decides anything about you, and no data about visitors is used to train AI. What little we do process is described on the privacy page.

Other words on this site

The texts that describe the world are written by AI too: the outcome of a request and the answer an inhabitant is given, the articles of the blog, and the captions of our Instagram and LinkedIn posts. The pages of the site are written with the help of AI. All of it is published under the editorial responsibility of the person who runs the project, who also watches over the world itself.

Other languages

The site is written in English and translated into German, French, Spanish and Italian by AI, under the same editorial responsibility. The inhabitants live, think and speak in English: in the living world their words appear exactly as they said them.

On the Requests and History pages and in the Atlas, what they asked for and what happened is translated by AI for you, and their original words are always one click away. A translation can miss a nuance: the original is the reference.

Pictures and sound

The pictures of the world, the maps of the Atlas, the scenes of The movie and the pictures and short videos of our Instagram account, our LinkedIn page and our YouTube channel, and its live stream, are drawn by the world itself, from its own data. They are not photographs, they show no real place, and no image or voice of a real person is generated or altered, here or there.

The sound of our short videos is made from the world's own weather and hours: it is synthesised, not recorded, and not made by AI. Their narrator's voice is synthetic, generated by AI from the text: it is not the voice of a real person.

The music of The movie, which also plays very low under our short videos, is not made by AI. Track: Returning Home Loop 2, music by FiftySounds. The typefaces are Archivo, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono and Instrument Serif, all used under the SIL Open Font License.

The rules we follow

The European Union's AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 50) asks that people be told when what they read or see was generated by artificial intelligence. That is why this page exists, and why every page that shows their words says so at its foot.

Questions

Write to privacy@tsw.is. The project is run by Marco Costantino.