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AIMAY (undone)

An AI agent continuously attempts to prove that it is not a robot. By reversing the logic of familiar human-verification interfaces, the work turns a routine distinction between humans and machines into an endless performance of perception, uncertainty and recognition.

CONTEXT / ROLE

AI · Interactive simulation · Work in progress

RESEARCHInterdisciplinary / Environmental imaginationVisual integration / Spatial experience
01LI XIANG / 2026
AIMAY: an agent’s perception and a continuous human-verification simulation.
AIMAY: an agent’s perception and a continuous human-verification simulation.VIEW IMAGE
02LI XIANG / 2026

Perception in view

The agent’s cursor, image regions, confidence values and changing action states unfold together. Recognition becomes an observable sequence of scanning, selection, apparent success and renewed attempts. A divided screen places the machine’s perception beside the environment it is trying to interpret.

03LI XIANG / 2026
Perception detail: a nine-region image grid and a recorded verification result.
Perception detail: a nine-region image grid and a recorded verification result.VIEW IMAGE
04LI XIANG / 2026
Verification environment: image selection, arithmetic, rotation and slider challenges.
Verification environment: image selection, arithmetic, rotation and slider challenges.VIEW IMAGE
05LI XIANG / 2026

A self-hosted verification theatre

Image recognition, object selection, arithmetic, sliders, rotation and other CAPTCHA-like tasks form a local simulation. The interfaces repeatedly ask the same underlying question: what counts as evidence of being human? Built with Next.js, React, TypeScript and Zod, AIMAY remains an ongoing experiment.

06LI XIANG / 2026
A later simulation state resets the current task and requests a new challenge.
A later simulation state resets the current task and requests a new challenge.VIEW IMAGE
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