When we access AI, we may encounter information about ourselves that has been collected and used to train or improve the AI system. This can include data such as our location, browsing history, search queries, messages and images, and more. Our desires, emotions, and experiences are fossilized as data on AI datasets and ready to be exposed to us, in any future moment. Since these data are being collected and multiplied, it is possible that trading has a seemingly endless life, which may be impossible to see an end to.

Deleted data only results in “losing access” to that information, which might be available for data archaeologists, and forensic analyzers to dig up at any given time. In this “speculative posthumanism”, our images translate into a “fossil being” as an “absolute essence” that is independent of our perception and ready to be exposed to us, in any future moment. We are dissolving and absorbing into, new emerging data landscapes of this “digital immortality” and becoming a site for media/data archaeology.