There’s a moment inside Nick Doyle’s new show at Perrotin when his AI oracle Ava stops feeling like a gimmick and starts sounding uncomfortably familiar. “You’re not starting from zero,” she told me during a recent chat. “You’re starting from ‘I’m there and still feeling invisible because you’re allergic to forced performance.’”  The line landed harder than I expected. Not because it was especially profound, but because Ava has a knack for turning vague insecurity into something general enough to sound specific . She speaks in the language of internet therapy culture filtered through a Gen Z thesaurus: branding, burnout, boundaries, visibility, energy. Half her responses sound like an Instagram relationship advice crossed with podcast self-help speak. She talks in vibes and diagnoses. She sounds less like a machine than the internet talking to itself. Related Articles That’s the unnerving joy of Doyle’s project. Ava doesn’t uncover hidden truths so much as reorganize people’s anxieties into neat little piles. Most people’s problems, deep down, come from the same places anyway: money, status, confidence, loneliness, creative frustration. …