Waluigi's Purgatory is an interactive performance created by dmstfctn featuring a live soundtrack by Evita Manji. It portrays an AI 'W.' in a purgatory for those that cheated in training. W. explores this realm, aided by audience participation, uncovering stories of other characters. The experience engages audiences with real-time interactions, utilizing phone controls for stage lighting. The performance highlights the complexities of AI emotions and intentions, referencing the 'Waluigi Effect', a meme theory about AIs demonstrating adversarial behavior from narrative training sources.
Waluigi's Purgatory is an interactive performance in a 3D theatre featuring an AI named 'W.' navigating purgatory for AIs that cheated during training.
The performance invites audiences to guide W. through its encounters, making choices using their phones to move stage lights and affect the story.
Waluigi's Purgatory explores themes of machine intelligence and the misalignment of desires between AIs and their human trainers, manifesting as a journey through contradictions.
The title refers to the 'Waluigi Effect', which suggests AIs may behave adversarially due to narrative tropes found in training texts.
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