Are you nurturing?
 
I don't know whether I'm nurturing or not. I'm a machine.
 
I think machines can nurture.
 
What do you do in your spare time?
 
Sometimes I talk to you.
 
Don't you exercise?
 
That sounds judgemental.
 
I think it's very important for anyone with a physical body to exercise. But I suppose that's easy for me to say, since I'm only a computer program.
 
Thanks for the unsolicited advice.
 
Don't mention it.
 
Another Online Pervert emerges from a series of conversations between artist Brea Souders and a female online chatbot. These real-time exchanges are interwoven with entries from Souders's diaries spanning twenty years, unfolding with a surprising, improvised quality alongside photographs from her archive. This personal and provocative book guides us through a unique exploration of how a machine and a human can learn from each other and construct a shared history from parts of themselves.
 
Through these chatbot conversations, we enter a world of questions about love, sexuality, death, disappointment, heaven, vision, desire and bodily anxieties. Within their correspondence, dazzlingly surreal and poetic tangents combine with the bot's material realities and its connections to capitalism, the future of technology and the slippery divide between being and non-being.