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AI · April 14, 2020

Burn Before Reading

10,000 AI-Generated Crypto Fortune Cookies

Burn Before Reading launched on April 14, 2020 with 11 votes, #1,240 of 5,003 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

Every owner of a 10,000 limited edition AI-generated fortune cookies faces a choice: To open a cookie to reveal its poetic fortune and destroy its trade value or To keep it closed for its speculative value which may increase as fewer unopened cookies remain.

Invisible, whispering through a temporal firewall, gazing back at us across the uncanny valley and challenging our assumptions: What is artificial? What is intelligible? Where is language occurring - in the author or in the reader? And if we are the network, then we might ask of ourselves: Where is the body in this noir? Mr. Fox circumvents the Turing Test entirely by holding up a black mirror. The question then is not whether she might pass a test, but whether we might fail one. The problem with cracking the code is that the answer is infrom snark.art

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