The human characters AI platforms make look natural · Maxime Bodereau
Artificial
Mythologies
Thirty-one scenes about the people platforms and AI quietly manufacture.
Selected excerpts. Not a summary in disguise.
The voice
The platform manufactures a character.
LinkedIn says it wants to protect “real voices,” then uses models to distinguish the people whose way of speaking other models have imitated too well.
Consent
A checkbox turns an economic decision into consent.
A line break gives a cliché the weight of a revelation. An exact number turns speculation into a method.
The detail
These signs are not details.
They are the places where a platform tells us what a professional, a creator, an investor, a worker, or a consenting user is supposed to look like.
Who it’s for
For noticing the small signs before they become nature.
Artificial Mythologies reads thirty-one scenes from 2026 through interfaces, posts, videos, labour, consent, and culture.
Each text starts from a concrete sign and asks what history it is trying to pass off as nature.
The rest is in the book
You’ve read enough to know
whether you want to continue.
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