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The Artifice Girl (2023)

★ 6.8 · 283 ratings on TMDB

She's not real. She's more than that.

The Artifice Girl poster★ 6.8

A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.

DirectorFranklin Ritch
CastAlyssa Moody, Andi Ciccotelli, David Girard, Franklin Ritch, Ivana Barnes, Lance Henriksen
GenresMystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
The emergence reading

In The Artifice Girl, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “virtual child AI”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing consciousness, technology, surveillance, ethics, identity.

↷ machinesUSconsciousnesstechnologysurveillanceethicsidentity
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8consciousnessconsciousness can be instantiated in non-biological substrates (AI) (technology · universal)
Also inConsciousness hiding in machinesFilms about technologyFilms about identityFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Short Circuit (1986)E8 · consciousness, identityMars Express (2023)E10 · consciousness, identityWifelike (2022)E8 · consciousness, identityNirvana (1997)E8 · consciousness, identityThe Matrix (1999)E8/E10 · identity, technologyRalph Breaks the Internet (2018)E8/E10 · identity, technology

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

They Cloned Tyrone (2023)E4/E9/E11 · rare rung · identity, surveillanceKingsman: The Secret Service (2015)E11/E14 · rare rung · surveillance, technologyOrigin: Spirits of the Past (2006)E12/E13 · rare rung · consciousness, technologyThe Creator (2023)E9/E12 · rare rung · consciousness, technologyImpossible Things (2021)E11/E12 · rare rung · surveillance, technologyStar Trek: Insurrection (1998)E9/E11 · ethics, technology

Also bends a rule of reality

Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.

Ex Machina (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · looseHer (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · looseGhost in the Shell (1995)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorousTRON: Ares (2025)alters at E8 · same rung · looseOpen Your Eyes (1997)alters at E8 · same rung · looseThe Animatrix (2003)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous

Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

Blade Runner (1982)consciousness in machines · future corporate dystopiaMorgan (2016)consciousness in machines · synthetic bio‑labGhost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)consciousness in machines · cybernetic corporate dystopiaShort Circuit 2 (1988)consciousness in machines · robotic citizenshipGhost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)consciousness in machines · cybernetic ghost marketGhost in the Shell (2017)consciousness in machines · cybernetic shellscape

Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

The Man with Two Brains (1983)consciousness carried elsewhere · consciousness, identityJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)consciousness in animals · ethics, technologyMorbius (2022)consciousness in monsters · identity, technologyBlue Beetle (2023)consciousness in aliens · identity, technologySpace Jam: A New Legacy (2021)consciousness in animals · identity, technologyTed 2 (2015)consciousness in objects · consciousness, identity

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Aliens (1986)Lance HenriksenThe Terminator (1984)Lance HenriksenTarzan (1999)Lance Henriksen