For a society already struggling with the nature of “truth,” the introduction of ChatGPT and other AI bots has opened wide a pandora’s box of uncertainty about what’s real and what’s not.

It’s now easier than ever to create fake videos, false narratives, and counterfeit news, and every day it gets harder to know what facts come from the real world and which come from an algorithm. New technologies twist our sense of morality, demanding we make new decisions with each new innovation.

IN OUR LIKENESS explores this new age of artificial intelligence with a story that raises profound questions about identity and memory, trust and truth.

Meticulous and observant, Graham Gooding leads operations for a tech startup in New York City. When his brilliant coworker — and crush — Nessie Locke asks for his help testing an algorithm that detects lies on the internet, he jumps at the chance. With his personal life mainly consisting of visiting his ailing mother who has just been hospitalized, he is looking for a little distraction, and if that comes with an opportunity to impress Nessie, so much the better. Graham stays up late testing the algo and awakens to find the algorithm didn’t detect the lie he’d embedded — but rather reality bent to make his lie into the truth. 

Graham’s enigmatic and volatile boss recognizes the power and possibilities at hand with this remarkable tool and is determined to use the algo to become a household name. He begins altering reality to create new truths, and Graham and Nessie come together to navigate a constantly changing sense of reality — one that only they know is shifting.

As the impacts of the algo grow and Graham’s mother becomes swept into the chaos, more ethical challenges and questions arise. In the end, Graham and Nessie determine they must find a way to reset reality before it is lost to lies forever…

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