Welcome to Chat Haus, The Coworking Space for Ai Chatbots

Nestled between the elementary school and a public library in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Greenpoint is a new species of “luxury” space for covrocking.

Entitled Chat House, this space has many of the elements you would find in the traditional covrock office: people are fucking on their computer keyboards, another person who calls on the phone, someone else stops from their computer to drink coffee.

However, there is one of the key difference: Chat Haus is a fork for AI chatbots and everything – including people – is made of cardboard.

CONCERTY, Chat House is an artistic exhibit of the artist in Brooklyn Nim me-reuvenS It houses a handful of cardboard robots running away on their computers through small motors. There is a sign that offers space for the “only” $ 1.999 dollar a month, and another, which refers to the space as “luxury cooperation for chatbots”.

Ben-Rein told TechCrunch that he had built the exhibit as a way to cope and to make humor to the fact that most of his work is largely focused on the graphic design and video-pushing into the AI ​​world. He added that he was already denied freelance work as companies turn to AI tools instead.

“It was like an expression of powerlessness in humor, so I wouldn’t get upset too quickly that the industry is changing so fast and under my nose and I don’t want to be part of the change,” Ben-Raven said. “So I was like, I’ll just fight something stupid that I can laugh at myself.”

He said he also wanted to protect this exhibit not to be too negative because he did not think that it would say the right message. He said that the creation of art, which is negative, forces it in an angle and requires it to protect itself. He has added the giving the “lighter tone” display also helps him paint in viewers of all ages and with all AI opinions.

While Ben-Raven and I talked at Pan Pan Vino Vino, a cafe located on the other side of the street from the window display, many groups of people have stopped watching the chat house. Three women of millennia have stopped and took pictures. A group of primary age students at first class schools stopped and asked questions about the satellites of their adults.

Ben-Reuven also believed that although AI is doing to the industry in which it works, the situation remains lighter than some of the other horrors and traumas that are happening in the world today.

“I want to say that AI in terms of the creative world seems like such a slight thing compared to so many others as war, things that happen in the world and as the terror and the trauma that exists,” he said.

Ben-Rein has always used cardboard in his art. He made a flight reference at the airport terminal from cardboard at school. Between the freelance work in the last decade, he has worked on the construction of these cardboard robots or “cardboard babies” as he calls them. So while using these cardboard robots was a natural choice for a display – it is joked that it also needs a reason to take them out of his apartment – the material also provides another AI comment.

“The unprecedentedness of these cardboard things and the ability to get it under even light weight is how I think AI interacts with creative industries,” he said. “People can make their images at Midjourney, which look really great on Instagram and excite the 12 -year -olds to no end, but with any level of control, it’s garbage and I feel like you look close enough to these cardboard things, they will easily crash and will easily fall under any weight.”

However, he understands why consumers are attracted to some AI art generated. He likens him to unwanted food and the fast -acting serotonin hit, which comes from eating unwanted foods before being absorbed quickly.

Chat Haus is a temporary display as the building that is located that it expects permits to be approved for renovation. Ben-Rein hopes to keep the display until at least mid-May and hopes to move to a larger gallery if he can. He wants to be able to add more to him – but he is worried about where he will put any additional materials in his apartment after the display is over.

“I just thought it would be funny to express this idea, for example, a whole bunch of sweets, a kind of fearsome, baby robots, which write because of our chat-hosts in some kind of warehouse somewhere, working constantly, taking as much as Switzerland Bruce for a year,” Ben-Regen said.

Currently, the Haus chat is on the front window of 121 Norman Avenue in Brooklyn, New York in the Greenpoint neighborhood.