Obfuscation
By Erika Buzzo
Obfuscation documents how AI-driven systems enforce cultural uniformity through structural design, not through censorship. A Māori elder and a young Yazidi child undergo five stages of progressive identity erosion: PRESENCE, NOISE, FRACTURE, OBFUSCATION, SILENCE. What falls outside dominant datasets does not disappear; it becomes statistically irrelevant. The degradation is not generated. It is constructed. *Midjourney + Nano Banana + Photoshop · 2026*