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Hands are part of the body language of humans, both on a conscious and on an unconscious level. Sometimes they seem to possess a life of their own and communicate more than what their owner means to convey, opening up hidden emotions and involuntary messages.

While we put AI on a pedestal for its intelligence, its depiction of our hands tells a different story. Within the unclear distinction between physical and digital reality, hands, known for communicating hidden messages, now reveal one too. It  deforms and multiplies them. These anomalies not only reveal that ‘’AI is present’’, but also that it is dependent on human hands as tools to grasp reality – through their clicks on a trackpad and as a material for training data. In this scattered industrialised human resource farm, discarded training data shows our joint struggle to grasp each other's realities. While we cater to AIs wishes, we slowly become interdependent and lay our livelihood in artificial hands.

In this symbiotic relationship, hands are, like a visible sign under the surface, signalling a juggle between trust and sacrifice, recognition and estrangement in the formation of our reality.



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