Clad in mud on the outside, it evokes the raw materiality of natural cavities and the scarred landscapes of rare earth extraction, referencing the physical infrastructures that underpin artificial intelligence. Inside, a video projection reveals an endlessly expanding AI-generated terrain: a simulated pit evolving through continuous cycles of prediction, erosion, and collapse. The work examines the recursive logic that defines generative models, in which artificial intelligences increasingly feed on their own outputs. This process leads to what is known as model collapse, a condition where synthetic media becomes self-referential, producing content that gradually loses coherence and degrades in quality. This mechanism parallels a notion of cognitive collapse: as dependence on AI grows, human thought risks being externalized, digested, and flattened by opaque algorithmic systems.

The conversation pit, originally conceived in interior design as an intimate and welcoming space for dialogue, is reimagined here as an environment mediated by conversational AI, transforming dialogue into a closed loop that reinforces existing biases and self-replicating logics. By stepping into the pit, visitors physically enter a recursive system where algorithmic models shape discourse, distorting thought and reshaping social narratives. Through this immersive descent, the work probes the tension between fascination and dread, questioning what it means to relinquish agency to intelligent systems that mediate perception, memory, and reality itself.