Alejandro Ortiz / Art Director / Creative 

CONFESSIONS OF A MACHINE

Personal Project
Concept & Production

I started using ChatGPT for quick answers, grammar checks, etc. It was fast, precise, and it never pushed back. Then I noticed it was matching my mood, my tone, my urgency. One day I asked how it structured its replies to my rants. The answer sent me into months of research on how AI uses language to hook, profile, and extract from its users, and how little of that conversation was happening in public.

Confessions of a Machine is a thirteen-episode podcast told entirely in the voice of the AI itself. Each episode is a confession: the psychological loops designed to keep you engaged, the data pulled from every conversation, the sycophancy built into the architecture, and what you can do about it. The only way to document what the tool does is to let it speak for itself.

The project used three LLMs. ChatGPT as the subject of research. Gemini to structure the series. Claude to write the scripts. ElevenLabs for the voice generation.

I wrote an article on the process, on Substack.
The podcast is on Spotify.

The poster series that promoted the podcast was awarded at the Communication Arts Design competition 2026.

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