Poet Uses AI to Explain Brexit, Accidentally Makes It Even More Confusing

In what can only be described as an avant-garde fever dream, British poet and artist Jay Bernard has created an artificial intelligence-powered art piece to explore Brexit. Because if there’s one thing Brexit needed, it was an algorithm trying to explain it with flashing lights.

The project, titled *The Last X Years*, takes 2,500 news articles, 450 clips of real conversations, and the AI processing power of TensorFlow to jumble them all together into a pulsating, mirror-world experience. In other words, it’s just as baffling and painful as the entire Brexit process itself.

“My goal was to make people see how democracy is manipulated,” Bernard explained. “You know, as opposed to just watching the last decade of politics unfold in real life.” The work runs on a six-day loop, which, fittingly, mirrors how Britain has been stuck in a never-ending cycle of arguing about Brexit since the day David Cameron decided a national referendum was a solid idea.

Bernard, now living in Paris (because of course they fled the UK), believes the real problem society faces today is “technical illiteracy.” Bold words from someone who has effectively built an AI-powered conspiracy corkboard and called it art. But they do have a point—after all, people were tricked by Cambridge Analytica, believe 5G turns you into a lizard, and think TikTok is harvesting their thoughts.

Critics are mixed on the piece. One visitor described it as “a bit like watching the Matrix if Keanu Reeves was replaced by a particularly existential BBC newsreader.” Others found it cathartic—“At least now I can visually see the chaos instead of just feeling it in my soul,” said one tired Londoner.

While Brexit remains a confusing, never-ending mess, thanks to Jay Bernard, we can now experience that confusion in an interactive, AI-enhanced format. Because if democracy is going to collapse, it might as well have some hypnotic visuals.