2026
Generative choir, synthesised singers, Terms and Conditions of the most used AI agents, of the U.S. Communications Decency Act, AI, vertical screen, TV stand.

Every time we use a voice assistant (Alexa, Siri, Google, ChatGPT, Claude), we agree to a set of terms and conditions we almost certainly have not read. These documents describe, in precise legal language, exactly what is being taken from us and what we have consented to give away.

T&C is a generative choral work that takes these documents as its score. An AI model reads the terms and conditions of the most widely used AI voice assistants and transforms them into a text performed by a choir of synthesised voices.

A second layer of the system performs a semantic analysis of Section 230 of the United States Communications Decency Act, the law that gave us Wikipedia by protecting platforms from legal responsibility for what their users publish, and that simultaneously allowed social media companies to operate without accountability for the content they amplify. Section 230 is the legal infrastructure of the internet as we now know it. Although most people have never heard of it, it shapes almost everything they read online.

In T&C, the structure of this law, that is its grammatical logic, its distribution of rights and immunities, its definition of who is responsible for what, determines how the choir is organised: which voices speak together, which fragment, which repeat, which fall silent.

The work asks what it means to perform language we agreed to without reading, conducted by a law we have never encountered, and in a voice that was trained on our own.

Created at the Royal Opera House Choreographic Coding Lab 2026, with support from EnvatoLab.