Whisper

Interactive Installation

Whisper is a kinetic art installation that simulates a looping Game of Telephone (also known as Chinese Whispers). It uses AI’s text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) services to repeatedly transmit the subtle warnings displayed on the interfaces of popular AI chatbot agents. These include: “ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info.” (ChatGPT), “Gemini can make mistakes, including about people, so double-check it.” (Gemini), and “AI generated, for reference only.” (DeepSeek).

Whisper 是一件動態裝置藝術作品，模擬了一個循環的傳話遊戲。它利用人工智能的文本轉語音（TTS）和語音轉文本（STT）技術，不斷傳遞當前流行 AI 的聊天機器人界面上的那些不起眼的警示語句。這些語句包括：「ChatGPT 可能會犯錯，請核對重要資訊」（ChatGPT）、「Gemini 可能會犯錯，請仔細核查」（Gemini），以及「AI 生成，僅供參考」（DeepSeek）。

The process involves one unit converting text into speech with TTS, passing it to the next unit, which uses STT to recognize the speech and generate new speech based on the recognized text, continuing in a loop.

In this work, TTS and STT, two of the most widely applied AI services, demonstrate their reliability. Meanwhile, the format of the telephone game serves as a metaphor, hinting at the potential vulnerabilities and risks inherent in these technologies and the system itself. This work does not aim to prove whether AI is reliable or unreliable; instead, it seeks to provoke reflection on the blind spots that underpin our trust in the technology and the systems.

這一過程包括：一個單元通過 TTS 將文字轉換為語音，將其傳遞給下一個單元，下一個單元通過 STT 識別該語音並基於識別出的文字生成新的語音，並以此循環往復。

在這件作品中，TTS 和 STT 作為當前應用最廣泛的兩項人工智能服務，展示了其可靠性。然而，傳話遊戲的形式作為隱喻，暗示了這些技術及其所處系統本身潛在的脆弱性與風險。這件作品並不試圖證明人工智能是可靠還是不可靠，而是希望引發人們對技術信任中的盲點的反思。