Abstract: AI hides many human mediations in its conception as well as in its reception. However, everything happens as if the user was in contact with a pure otherness, a myth that the recent revelations on the human outsourcing that was necessary for the functioning of the conversational "agent" Chat-GPT3 have hardly dented. This article aims to set out avenues that may shed light on the characteristics and motivations of such a structural illusion.
