What Would Bread Say Right Before Being Eaten By Butter?

QHD single channel video, stereo sound

19min 10sec

2025

Through surveys and interviews, the voices of multiple AI trainers form the core narration of the video. They are not mere technicians, but emotional laborers who continually translate between machine language and human experience in order to produce a more “human” AI. Confronted with weighty questions about God, death, and ethics, the trainers waver as their own beliefs, fears, and sense of responsibility surface.

The video unfolds through a cross-cut structure that moves between scenes from the daily life of an AI Trainer and an imagined shared space where trainers from diverse backgrounds gather to exchange their experiences and feelings. By oscillating between reality and speculation, these two strands trace how the burden of ethics and responsibility is inscribed onto individual lives and bodies, while quietly observing those who must go on generating answers all the same.