About Misbehaving Machines

What would it look like if generative AI tools revealed their uncertainty rather than tried to hide behind the veneer of form and style?

This year, a group of researchers from the University of Technology Sydney invited librarians from four Greater Sydney libraries to make a misbehaving AI answer machine with us. The result? A machine where our expectation is that it will misbehave rather than comply.

Find out more about what and why here...

And find out what questions you have been asking the machines here...

Ask a Question

What question would you like to ask the Misbehaving Machines?

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Making our datasets

Find out how we made our first datasets for the Misbehaving Machines

find out how!

Group Members

Dr Heather Ford

is an ARC Fellow and Associate Professor in the School of Communications.

Dr Bhuva Narayan

is Associate Professor, Digital Social Media in the School of Communication.

Dr Suneel Jethani

is a Senior Lecturer in Digital and Social Media in the School of Communication.

Dr Andrew Burrell

is a senior lecturer is Visual Communication, School of Design

Dr Monica Monin

is a lecturer is Visual Communication, School of Design

Research and Co-Design Participants



ALIA
Trish Hepworth

City of Sydney Libraries
Heather Davis
Fiona Ni
David Dolan
Kathryn Joss

TAFE NSW
Emma Stockburn
Naomi Burns
Heidi Wills
Anna Sin

City of Parramatta Libraries
Emma Stockburn
Nisa Alam

UTS Library
Nicole Aradas
Kimberley Porteous
Alycia Bailey
Ashley England
Emma Slee

State Library of NSW
Abby Dawson



Our Institutional Partners




New South Wales Public Libraries Association





Our Participating Libraries






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