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RILF (the ‘R’ stands for robot ...) explores resonances in the (uncanny) valley between feminized machines and machinized femmes. Resignified materials in the project include: Monica” (the Google AI assistant) answering psychologist Arthur Aron’s “36 questions to fall in love”; “Ann Steel” (composer Roberto Cacciapaglia’s feminized disco avatar); Donna Summer with an early drum machine; “Samantha” (the Apple text-to-speech voice) iterating on linguistics work by Natural Language Processing (NLP) researcher Bill MacCartney; TikTok streamer “Pinky” (Fedha Sinon) performing as a Non-Playable (videogame) Character (NPC) for the music producer Timbaland; the actor Scarlett Johansson singing as the character “Samantha” in the 2013 film “her” through Holly Herndon’s “Holly+” AI vocal clone; and the musician “Grimes” (Claire Boucher) pleading on “X” (Twitter) with the father of her children, Elon Musk, through her own vocal clone, “GrimesAI-1.”