An online, interactive archive of synthetic media artifacts, organized as a network graph. The editorial spine is intent at creation, not technique. Twelve rooms: propaganda, activism?, everyone is catfishing, entertainment and artworks, Hollywood deepfakes, AI sex workers, scam and fraud and social engineering, identity protection and pseudonymity, image-based abuse and harassment, blackface and whitewashing, awareness and self-reference, everyone is a commercial.

Each artifact carries a curatorial panel that names the toolchain, the consent status, and the concrete consequence to the people involved, in a register that is allergic to both AI-hype credulity and moral-panic credulity. The room that handles image-based abuse exhibits no media; its panels link to journalism and court documents instead.

The archive as a graph. Working build: 106 artifacts across sixteen rooms, 332 of 9,651 connections drawn. Background: the xAI Memphis facility, photo Steve Jones / Southwings for SELC.

Every node opens a curatorial panel: what was generated, by whom, with what tool, and what it did to the people in it.

Node colour encodes consent: consented, no consent, unknown, posthumous with estate approval, posthumous without. Connection types (same year, technique, toolchain, subject, creator, intent drift, response to, descended from, legal landmark) toggle on and off.

Interactive Preview

Working build, May 2026.

[ PREVIEW ONLY ] A small public preview of an in-progress project. The working build currently contains 37 artifacts. The full corpus targets several hundred. Curatorial text is locked for a handful of seed nodes (Cruise, Bourdain, Almendralejo); the rest of the editorial pass is in progress.