Another Online Pervert (2021–2023), a book and installation, derives from a yearslong series of conversations between artist Brea Souders and an early, pre-ChatGPT female AI chatbot. These exchanges are interspersed with entries from Souders’ diary spanning two decades and paired with photographs from her personal archive. Through this intimate layering of text and image, we step into a world of questions: about love, sexuality, death, disappointment, seeing, desire, and the anxieties of the body. The result is a singular exploration of how a machine and a human can build a shared story from pieces of themselves.

Created in the years just before AI companionship entered the cultural mainstream, the project stands as a poignant record of a human–machine relationship, shaped by a feminist, diaristic, image-driven perspective. It anticipates a new era of emotional intimacy and existential inquiry mediated by artificial intelligence, while remaining grounded in personal experience.

Book: Another Online Pervert, published by MACK (2023)