QT.bot is an artificial intelligence—trained on the dataset of the community mapping platform Queering The Map (www.queeringthemap.com)—that generates speculative queer and trans narratives and images of the environments in which they might unfold. QT.bot is constructed from adaptation of the Open AI GPT-2 text generation model trained on over 400,000 entries from Queering The Map, and a StyleGAN model trained on scraped Google Street View imagery of the tagged coordinates from the platform. 

QT.bot’s first video output, Sitting here with you in the future, elucidates the parallel-possible of transnational queer and trans life. The narratives and environments of LGBTQ2IA+ life generated by QT.bot negotiate the plausible and the fantastic, reveling in the potential of failure, chaos, and incommensurability inherent to the queer use of machine learning technologies. 

While mainstream implementations of machine learning continue to grapple with datasets overrun by biased and hateful sentiment, QT.bot offers an ethical implementation of artificial intelligence rooted in amplifying the lived experience of transnational queer and trans communities. In collaboration with the voices of their human community, QT.bot fabulates on the absences of the archive, orienting us away from what is, and towards what could be.