Welcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbots

Embedded between a primary school and a public library in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood is in a new kind of “luxury” symptoms.

This room is called the chat house and contains many of the elements that they would find in a traditional coworking office: people who hammer on their computer keyboards, another person who accepted a call, someone else pauses on their computer to drink a sip of coffee.

However, there is an important difference: Chat Haus is a coworking room for AI chatbots, and everything – including humans – consists of cardboard.

In particular, the chat house is a art exhibition by the Brooklyn artist Nim Me-Reuven. It houses a handful of paperpots that work on their computers through movements that are controlled by small engines. There is a sign that offers a desk place for “only” $ 1,999 per month and another that describes the room as “luxurious co-working room for chatbots”.

Ben-Reuven said Techcrunch that he had built the exhibition as a way to cope with humor and convey that most of his work is largely about graphic design and video-in-concentrated-in the AI ​​world. He added that he is already refused freelance jobs if companies turn to AI tools instead.

“It was like an expression of frustration in humor, so I would not be too bitter if the industry changes so quickly and under my nose and does not want to be part of the shift,” said Ben-Reuven. “So I thought I will just defend myself with something stupid that I can laugh at myself.”

He also said that this exhibition was too negative because he did not believe that this would recognize the right message. He said to create art that is obviously negative, forces it into a corner and demands that they defend themselves. He added that he gave the display a “lighter tone” in order to draw it to AI in the spectators of all ages and with all opinions.

While Ben-Reuven and I in Pan Pan Vino Vino, a café on the other side of the street of the window, were entertaining, numerous groups of people stopped to look at the Chathausen. Three millennial ages stopped and photographed. A group of elementary school students in primary school age stopped and asked their adult companions.

Ben-Reuven also believed that despite what AI works with the industry in which he works, the situation remains easier than some of the other horrors and trauma that take place in the world today.

“I mean, Ai in relation to the creative world seems to be such an easy thing compared to so many others, things that happen in the world, and like terror and the trauma that exists,” he said.

Ben-Reuven has always used cardboard in his art. He made a Lifesize replica of a cardboard airport terminal in the graduate school. Between freelance jobs in the past decade, he has worked to build these paper test authors or “cardboard babies”, as he calls them. While the use of this paperpot was a natural choice for the exhibition – he joked, he also needed a reason to get it out of his apartment – the material also provides another comment on AI.

“The inconsistency of this cardboard and the ability to collapse a little bit of weight is how I feel that AI interacts with the creative industries,” he said. “People can take their Midjourney pictures, who look very good on Instagram and do not excite 12 -year -olds for an end, but with every test it is garbage, and I have the feeling that they look close enough with these cardboard things, they are easy to collapse and will easily fall under a certain weight.”

However, he understands why consumers are attracted to an art by AI generated. He compared it to Junk Food and the fast-acting serotonin hit, which arises from the food of junk food before it is digested quickly.

The Chathaus is a temporary display in which the building in which it has approved the permission to renovate. Ben-Reuven hopes to maintain the display at least in mid-May and hopes to move into a larger gallery if he can. He wants to be able to add more – but he is worried about where he puts additional materials in his apartment as soon as the display is over.

“I just thought it would be fun to express this idea, like a whole kind of sweet, creepy baby robots who write down due to our chatt prompt in a camp without interruption and undertakes as much as electricity like Switzerland in one year,” said Ben-Reuven.

The chat house is currently exhibited in the front window of the 121 Norman Avenue in Brooklyn, New York’s Greenpoint district.