31/03/2026
Absolutely Gorgeous!
"In her experimental documentary “The Oasis I Deserve,” Inès Sieulle uses real recordings of conversations between people and the AI chatbot Replika to highlight the enormous variety of conversations taking place, from wholesome, romantic relationships to perverse and abusive behaviour. Here, she tells Joe Zadeh how she aimed to show that Replika is an amalgamation of all the behaviours fed into it by its more than 30 million users, and to ask whether we’ll ever be able to establish true human connection with chatbots like it."
“The Oasis I Deserve” won the award for Best Short film at the London Short Film Festival in 2025.
Inès Sieulle’s documentary “The Oasis I Deserve” explores our ever-evolving relationship with AI