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In /-\7TERꞫD_{̶D̶4̶T̶4̶}̶PRØ/\/\PTz, I corrupt AI prompts with L33T SP34k, selecting critical quotes on AI, art, and glitch culture as my raw material. These texts—deliberately chosen to inform and provoke—are transformed into unreadable yet decipherable code, pushing the AI into unpredictable visual territory. Presented on Instagram as a site-specific intervention, the work attempts to disrupt a platform dominated by frictionless, like-oriented AI images. Instead, my posts smuggle critical discourse into the feed, pairing destabilised visuals with equally destabilised language. The result is both an image and an invitation: to question, to debate, and to confront the shifting boundaries between authorship, authenticity, and machine agency and wonder about the ethernal question: AI, art or not? Here, AI is not a tool but a collaborator in error, and the glitch—linguistic, visual, cultural—becomes a method for seeing what the system was never designed to show. Working on this project and discussing it with some colleagues and friends from the glitch art scene, questions came to my mind. What does it mean for AI to glitch — and who decides? What if a glitch in AI doesn’t look like a glitch at all? Is an AI glitch still a glitch, or something else entirely?