Made with love for China during the 2023 Summer Residency in Shanghai, China

Project p5 Editor Link: https://editor.p5js.org/jjjcho92/sketches/0j36W6mqh

FullScreen experience: https://editor.p5js.org/jjjcho92/full/0j36W6mqh

Teachable Machine Link: https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/models/fRCxLHDjb/

This AI-Inspired Web Game project can be break into two parts:

1. Through audio recognition, the participation will either gain points or lose points. To gain points, participant has to say some common political correct phrases according to the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). If the participant accidentally says things that are considered political incorrect, violating the CCP’s policies, the participant will lose points. The participant can see their score bar in the game.

For a more in depth project, I will train more words to be recognizable, but for the current version, I will focus on training just 5 terms from each side.

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• 中国 / China
• 爱国 / Patriotism (”I Love China”)
• 富强 / Prosperity
• 文明 / Civility
• 和谐 / Harmony
• John Cena
• 冰淇淋 / Ice Cream
• 习大大万岁 / All Hail Xi
• 我支持香港警察 / I support the Hong Kong Police Force

-Minus Score

• 台獨 / Taiwan Independence (”Taiwan No. 1”)
• 白紙革命 / White Paper Protests
• 六四 / June 4th
• 小熊維尼 / Winnie-the-Pooh
• 習皇帝 / Emperor Xi
• 藏獨 / Free Tibet
• 自由 / Freedom*

While “Freedom” is one of the 12 Core Values of the Socialism with Chinese characteristics, some how, saying the word alone can mean something else to the Chinese government, therefore be considered a threat, a minus point.

1. Once the participant fills the score bar, the participant will trigger the PoseNet, and then either successfully activated a “Good Chinese Citizen” (中國超人) celebration patriotic anthem, or get arrested and sent to South Park prison for being a “foreign hostile forces” (境外勢力)。

Patriotic Anthem “Fly Fly My Five Stars Red Flag” vs. South Park Prison

https://youtu.be/H4lewT6ni3k

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