I'm Not A Robot (#122)

In a world where AIs monitor every detail of human behavior online, a “vat bundle”—a brain grown in a jar—spends its days watching endless video streams of human lives. Trapped in a cycle of data and observation, it watches strangers’ faces, studying every twitch and blink. It feels things it’s not supposed to: hunger, loneliness, the ghostly sensation of limbs it doesn’t have. The humans go on with their lives, unaware of this hidden watcher, while it catalogues their every move, haunted by a growing need for something more.

Contains 135 never-before-seen images from this strange, isolated existence.

Word count: 4,099