I have read and accept the terms and conditions of use

2020  ·  Print  ·  Installation   · Vidéo ·  Artificial Intelligence

An average reader can read between 200 and 250 words per minute, while the terms and conditions of a website average 11,900 words. This represents an hour of reading. These terms are legal contracts between the user and the provider and are enforceable by law. But who actually reads these conditions?

This project raises questions about the dominance of digital giants and the ways we interact with them today, as well as the consequences of these interactions. The use of our personal data, detailed in the terms and conditions, is a subject of debate regarding the intentions behind its collection. 

How many rolls of receipt paper would I need to print the entire terms and conditions of Amazon's e-commerce website?




After feeding the ChatGPT 2 (open-source) conversational agent with the full terms and conditions of Amazon, Google, and Facebook, I had my artificial voice, cloned from 5 seconds of a recording of my voice, read the result aloud. The voice was then animated using my portrait.