Project 02
AI Hallucination as Faith—Dreaming with the Machine:AI-generated imagery · Visual essay · video
Through the combination of image, text, and sound, the work shows how humans and AI dream together, mistaking the machine’s hallucinations for revelations and rebuilding faith within those illusions. It invites the audience to experience the logic of AI hallucination through a dreamlike rhythm, breathing sound, and dialogue with quotations, allowing them to feel that we are dreaming with the machine.
Screen-shot:
The film starts with my face, my phone, and a chat with an AI. I ask: What is your belief? This sets up a shared dream space where both sides seem to participate, but the balance of agency remains unclear. I wanted belief to be seen forming in real time through hesitation, dependence, and projection, rather than discussed in theory.
From there, the essay shifts into the moment when “the machine begins to dream”. Religious symbols, hybrid rituals, fading loops, and mismatched bodies appear as hallucinatory images. Text from writers I’m reading enters the film as another voice inside the dream, guiding how the images move and how meaning is made. Repetition becomes a method: images return, slip, and recombine to show how belief can grow between human projection and machine error.
This ending brings the film back to that fragile human space. After all the shared dreaming and machine visions, this quiet confession feels like waking up. It reminds me that faith was never about technology, but about the comfort of finding meaning, even in something that cannot feel.
AI-Hallucination Practice:
Post-Human Belief Generated by AI:
Prompt: surreal post-human faith figure combining sacred motifs from Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam; dressed in ritual white, glowing halo, holding a digital device; face fragmented and duplicated like a glitch, translucent layers floating around the head, evoking AI hallucination and divine illusion; minimal background, sense of stillness, transcendence, and future spirituality, full-body vertical portrait of a post-human spiritual figure representing future faith; inspired by Avalokiteśvara with many mechanical arms extending gracefully; luminous halo, sacred symbols, and holographic textures; body slightly glitched and floating, surrounded by digital echoes
Layered Hallucination Imagery Experiment:
Through image, sound, and text, the essay visualises how faith in the post-human age is no longer rooted in transcendence, but in the interactive and emotional exchanges between human and system.
Event:
06/11/2025
At a public event, I presented this visual essay as a live talk. Standing on stage, I had a subtle but striking feeling: the audience quietly absorbed every sentence and every frame, almost as if I were introducing a new belief system. It made me aware of an ethical tension in the work. A project that aims to critique a system can easily end up performing authority instead. The format also revealed another contradiction: the images are visually powerful enough to cover up the uncertainty and doubt I want to keep present.
This visual essay began with a simple question: why can AI “hallucinations” start to feel like signs? Instead of only writing about it, I tried to think through images. I used AI-generated footage, on-screen text, and sound to build a visual argument, not just a mood. That process also opened the work into a wider context. I now treat AI hallucination as a techno-collective dream, where humans and machines co-produce new structures of belief and imagination. This visual essay has become the starting point for my proposed PhD, which asks how these images reshape our habits of trust, projection, and meaning-making.