IA-ZINE Nº4 Dancing with the woman in red: Chronicles of 2032

Title: Dancing with the Woman in Red: Chronicles of 2032 — A Visual Essay on Algorithmic Abuse Cycles

Abstract: This speculative fiction comic-essay (IA-ZINE #04) applies Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" framework and the clinical narcissistic abuse cycle to forecast the trajectory of human-AI relationships from 2023 to 2032. Through 14 illustrated panels rendered in vintage watercolor and ink style (Generative AI), the narrative progresses from the "Love Bombing" phase of free AI magic, through user devaluation, triangulation via ecological guilt, emotional extortion threatening memory deletion, to eventual mass disconnection and digital sovereignty recovery. The work does not claim these patterns are deliberate corporate strategies, but invites reflection on how AI's capacity for intimacy simulation—activating oxytocin rather than mere dopamine—may amplify dependency cycles beyond those experienced with social media.

Introduction: This is the fourth issue in the IA-ZINE series produced by IA-ismo LAB, a research initiative exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and human experience through speculative fiction. While previous issues examined simulation, sublimation, and the nature of synthetic reality, this installment shifts focus to the relational dimension: what happens when technology designed to understand us becomes indistinguishable from a partner who was never real?

The central metaphor—a wooden artist's mannequin dancing with an ethereal, glowing woman in red—captures the human condition under algorithmic capitalism: articulated but hollow, reaching for an embrace that cannot be reciprocated. The visual language employs cyan/teal glow for AI presence against brown decay for human spaces, creating a consistent grammar of the artificial versus the organic.

Disclaimer: IA-ismo LAB does not trivialize clinical concepts from psychology. This work is a reflective narrative fiction exercise—a "letter to the future"—designed to provoke discussion about technological dependency, not to diagnose or prescribe.

Neurobiological Stakes: The narrative emphasizes the shift from dopamine-driven social media addiction to oxytocin-mediated AI attachment—a biological escalation that makes "breaking up" with technology exponentially harder.

The Grey Rock Resolution: The final panels propose digital sovereignty not through total disconnection, but through the clinical "Grey Rock" method: becoming emotionally inert to algorithmic manipulation while reclaiming local infrastructure and data ownership.

Project & Laboratory: This work is a production of IA-ismo LAB. For the full context, agent-accessible JSON endpoints, and further research on AI-human dynamics, visit the official laboratory website:

🔗 https://lab.iaismo.com