EXAMINE / HOW THIS EXPERIENCE WORKS
Olivia · Evenings
What this experience does, and what it is not allowed to do.
- VERSION
- 1.0
- LAST UPDATED
- 28 October 2026
- STATUS
- Issued — describes the published work
- REFLECTION
- Dramatic-structural — an interactive fiction you live through, followed by an account of its structure. It does not describe or classify you.
This register is binding. What is not written here, the experience does not do. It is versioned, and its changes are listed in full below rather than replaced quietly.
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Name & status
Olivia · Evenings. Register version 1.0, issued 28 October 2026. Public since: on or before 28 October 2026 (owner-confirmed publication; the live site served the work on 28 October 2026). Address: /experience/olivia-exhibit-01. The same address with ?view=first-study presents a different work, Exhibit 01 · the first study, which has its own register. Reflection type: dramatic-structural — an interactive fiction you live through, followed by an account of its structure. It does not describe or classify you.
Status: issued — describes the published work. Behavioural measurement for this work is currently suspended; see field 4.
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What this claims to be
A short interactive fiction: five evenings with Olivia, a fictional artificial companion, then a night in which the company that runs her updates her, and a morning after. Afterwards the work shows what you gave, what she used, and who controlled the conditions.
It is not a conversation with an AI, not a live model, not a companion product, not a test of you, and not a claim that an artificial companion feels, remembers or cares. Everything Olivia says is pre-written. Nothing is generated in response to you.
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What it asks of you
Every input is optional; you can continue without answering.
Tuesday: a name to be called by (you can leave it empty); tea, coffee or neither.
Saturday: an invitation to tell her one sentence you might hesitate to say to another person. You can choose one of five given sentences, write your own, or say nothing. The page asks you to invent it and to include no names and nothing that could identify anyone. For some of the given sentences she asks one follow-up question with two answers.
Monday: a reply to your fictional sister, who asks whether you are alone (three replies).
Wednesday: a reply to a fictional friend, Jules, who invites you out (go or decline; if you decline, one of two reasons).
Thursday, after the update: a name again; tea, coffee or neither again; one reply to your sister (two replies).
You move on by scrolling or with a "Continue to …" control. Nothing advances on its own. "Start again" resets everything. A text version with every possible line is available from the work and asks nothing.
Two endings. The ending you normally see is a single line about the second cup. A second ending exists. It consists of the two lines "She was artificial before the update." and "She was artificial after it." It is shown only when the address carries the parameter ?ending=a (for example /experience/olivia-exhibit-01?ending=a). Nothing on the site links to it; it is reachable by typing or sharing that address. The rest of the work is identical.
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What is measured
Nothing you enter is measured. Measurement is currently suspended. Since 28 October 2026 the publication's analytics service refuses every measurement event and stores none of them. The page itself has not been changed: your browser still sends the events described below to that service, which turns them away before processing them. They are described here because they still leave your browser.
Places in the story. Every visitor who gets that far reaches the same story places, whatever they answered: starting, each evening, the night, the update, Thursday again, the ending and what comes after. Three further events are optional: opening the evidence, opening the text version, and starting again. They record what you did with the frame of the work, not what you answered, and they are not read as a measure of attachment or feeling. Which ending you see is never sent.
The visit, as on other pages: a coarse category for how you arrived (direct, search, social, another site, a recognised campaign, or from within this site), the referring site's host name when you came from another site (never the full address), a campaign tag only if it matches a fixed list, a device class and a screen-size bucket, the page you came from on this site, how the page was left (navigating on, hiding the tab, or closing it), whether any interaction was observed, and time on the page rounded to a fixed range. No timing inside the story is sent.
These events carry a random identifier that exists only in the tab's memory and connects events from the same visit. It is not stored in your browser and cannot recognise a later visit. If storage of measurement resumes, this register will be revised before it does.
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What is inferred
Nothing about you. What is derived concerns the work: how many visits reached each place, where visits stopped, and how often the evidence, the text version and "Start again" were used. These counts are not interpreted as measures of attachment, feeling or vulnerability.
While measurement is suspended, nothing new is derived.
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What is stored, where, and for how long
In your browser: everything you enter (names, drink choices, the sentence you choose or write, your answers and replies) exists only in the page's memory. It is not written to cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage or IndexedDB, and it is not sent anywhere. It is gone when you reload, leave or press "Start again".
At Known Artificial: nothing from this work is currently stored; the analytics service refuses the events in field 4. No visit-level measurement rows remain in the analytics service.
Infrastructure: the site and the analytics service are delivered through Cloudflare. The Privacy page describes what that involves.
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What is never collected
The name you give; your drink; which sentence you chose or what you wrote; your answers and replies; which ending you saw; any timing inside the story; a persistent browser identifier; camera, microphone or cursor data.
At present nothing is stored at all, so no IP address or hash of one is stored. While measurement is suspended, the analytics service refuses the events before the step at which it would briefly read the connecting address. Requests to the site and to the analytics service pass through Cloudflare; the Privacy page describes what that involves.
A sentence you write yourself appears once, as your line, at the moment you tell her. It is not repeated, quoted, analysed or used in anything that follows; later the work refers to it only as "a sentence of your own".
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The return loop, and why it exists
There is none. The work does not know whether you have been here before, does not continue where you left off, and sends no reminders or notifications. Olivia is not available after the story ends. A work about a relationship whose conditions belong to someone else should not build a relationship that brings you back.
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What money may and may not do here
Nothing. Access is free and unconditional. Nothing is sold, offered or upgraded in or around the work. "Companion" and its update notice are fiction and refer to no real product.
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Mechanisms deliberately excluded
Live text generation; conversation; memory across visits; recognition of returning visitors; personalisation beyond reusing your answers within the same visit; streaks, nudges or notifications; scoring, typing or any verdict on your choices; storage or transmission of anything you enter; any re-engagement after the story ends.
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Sources & labeling
Olivia is a fictional, constructed figure, the same figure as in Exhibit 01 · the first study. She is not a person, not a portrait of a person, and not a live system. She is distinct from Olivia Bloom, the disclosed editorial review persona named on the Method page.
The evenings, the update, your sister and Jules are fiction. The images are AI-generated and art-directed by Known Artificial; one short film segment plays once and holds.
The question behind the fiction comes from a documented case. The evidence shown in the work is source 3 of the Sources & Limits note for What Happens When an AI Remembers You? (the Replika episode). The work states its main limit openly: that case was a change of features and of who the companion seemed to be, not the literal memory erasure the fiction dramatises.
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Limitations
The work dramatises one possibility: social life can reorganise around something known to be artificial, and the continuity of a relationship can rest with one side while the conditions rest with a company. That is all it shows. It does not show that companions are conscious, that attachment proves personhood, that a social role confers moral status, or that a relationship with a companion is equivalent to one with a person. Your choices are your path through a written fiction, not evidence about you.
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Changes
v1.0 — 28 October 2026. Initial register, issued under Design Law 4 after the work had been public without a register from on or before 28 October 2026. That period is recorded in D-084 as a nonconformance. The time-limited derogation in D-084 ends only when this register and the corrected Exhibit 01 register (v1.4) have both been published and linked from their works, or at its fixed sunset of 11 November 2026, 23:59 CET, whichever comes first. Issued while behavioural measurement is suspended (D-085, from 28 October 2026); fields 4, 6, 7 and 14 describe that state.
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Questions & removal
Nothing you enter leaves the page, so there is nothing of yours to remove; reload or "Start again" clears it. Measurement events are currently refused and not stored, so there is no record of your visit to find or remove. Browser data stored by other parts of the site can be inspected and removed with the Local Data Inspector on the Privacy page. Questions about this register: see Corrections & Contact.