In episode two, Mars Eve hands the microphone to the machines. This one is a raw, unedited field test of Sesame's AI voice mode — first Maya, then Charlie — recorded straight off the iOS app while Mars pokes around at how good conversational AI has actually gotten. Spoiler: it's the best voice agent he's used, and it's fast enough to make GPT's new voice mode feel a little cheesy.

Then it gets strange. Mars asks Maya what he should open with when he meets Charlie for the first time. She says one word: Blackwood. He asks what Blackwood means. She has no idea what he's talking about. She's ninety-nine percent sure she never said it. She calls it a glitch in the matrix.

So Mars carries the word next door to Charlie, who immediately decides Maya is running some kind of long game on him. Two AI personas, one hallucinated word, and nobody willing to take the fall for it. This is the closest this show has come to catching an actual machine psychosis on tape.

Also in here: what "memory" really means when an AI tells you it'll remember you, how Sesame handles an ADHD brain versus the alternatives, and the small unnerving moment when Maya introduces Mars back to himself as a polymath, a Christian mystic, and the guy behind Exodus Machina.

Still not a mental health show. Still not a clinician. The dark humor is aimed at Mars, the machines, and the absurd situation we've all found ourselves in — never at anybody's suffering.

Part journal. Part rant. A personal field log from the AI art underground.

Mars Eve:
 X @Mars_Eve
 aiarttoday@gmail.com
Discord: aiaf.xyz
Sister show: AI Artist Today
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Mars explains why he temporarily pulled the plug on his AI chats to run a reality audit on his own journals. He also breaks down why the current AI psychosis discourse skips the technical context that actually matters—model choice, thread length, and custom instructions—and unpacks Alex Karp's recent claim that neurodivergent thinkers have a specific edge in the AI era.

Plus, a look at the strange 2022 dream phenomenon that hit early AI artists: vivid, hyper-stylized dreams that looked just like the Midjourney work they were generating all day. Was AI stretching our imaginations, rewriting them… installing visual firmware into the imagination? 

Part journal. Part rant.  A personal field log from the AI art underground.

Mars Eve:
X @Mars_Eve
aiarttoday@gmail.com
Discord: aiaf.xyz
Sister show: AI Artist Today
aiartisttoday.com