The piece was made in direct response to an open call put out by TIAT fielding artworks relating to "computational divinity and networked belief systems in the age of intelligent machines." 

To respond to the open call, we elected to create a piece that reflected the growing use of artificial intelligence as a spritiual advisor and confidant, leveraging catholic aesthetics through the form of the confessional

The entire project was hand built in under four days (the open call only lasted for a week) within the Berkeley MDes studio, using hand power tools and readily available hardware. Personal confessions were obtained from ourselves and a number of close friends. Our voices were used for all of them to preserve anonymity.  

The piece, as installed, contains a monitor which displays a looping screen recording of personal confessions made to ChatGPT, and the responses of the chatbot. The conversations are recorded with human voices and text-to-speech output for the ChatGPT responses.