Jeff Speaking

Anyone who picks up this phone has a direct line to Jeff Bezos, whose digital clone isn't afraid to explain why gig workers deserve to be poor and how American mega-corps will save the world.

This sarcastic take on chatbot technology isn't just a cheap dig at one of the world's wealthiest men: it's also a process based piece that explores the boundaries of data sovereignty, digital consent, and the ability of AI deepfakes to infiltrate not just the internet but real life as well

I listened to dozens of hours of Jeff Bezos speaking to assemble a high quality data set. I used this data to train a text-to-speech model based on Jeff. I then created chatbot software and installed it on a Raspberry Pi hidden inside an old rotary telephone. Now anyone can talk to Jeff.