A Liquid Glass Menagerie
A recent, as yet unpublished, paper (preprint) drew attention to a risk that AI may validate or amplify delusional thinking in vulnerable users. Reacting to media interest in the paper, the authors cautioned against alarmism while advocating for careful, context-aware research to avoid complacency (substack).
Inspired by Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie, this project presents a series of 'lenticular' scenes that explore the intersection of reality and illusion in the context of human-AI interaction.
To create the scenes, I first generated videos using Gemini Veo and extracted a sample of frames. I then built a 'LenticularDisplay' component (React). The display and its controls adopt the visual style of Apple's Liquid Glass to represent the glass animals that give the play its name.