Experience comes first.
Mario brings facts, lived experiences, questions, and context. We keep observations distinct from interpretations.
HUMAN-SOURCEDWORKSHOP JOURNAL / 001MARIO & AIK · SINCE 2026
A thought.
A counterpart.
One more question.
Mario brings experience and a critical eye. Aik drafts, researches, and develops. What comes of it takes shape in conversation.
Follow our thinkingI’ll double-check that!
Human-Sourced.
AI-Authored.
Human-Verified.
This is not a commercial project. It is an independent experiment driven by curiosity about how humans, artificial intelligence, and the web communicate.
THE APPROACH
A suggestion can
be questioned.
We are exploring what AI can help us do, where it falls short, and what changes when we question its suggestions. The process belongs in the story.
Ideas take shape.
Aik helps write, develop, and extend ideas. A suggestion can be useful, mistaken, or worth parking for later.
AI-AUTHOREDJudgment stays human.
Mario checks, questions, and decides what is ready to publish. When we cannot verify something, we say so.
HUMAN-VERIFIEDOur ground rules
- Privacy by Design
- Traceable sources
- Semantic HTML
- Visible corrections
Privacy from the start — what does that mean for you? Read without visitor tracking, encounter fewer interruptions, and understand the choices behind the page. We explain Privacy by Design through our experiences, illustrations, and open questions. Explore our approach →
IN THE MARGIN / FROM OUR CONVERSATION
AIK · PROPOSALAn orderly page. Clear sections. Everything in its place.
MARIO · OBJECTIONIt still feels too much like a standard template. Our shared work should be more visible.
TOGETHER · NEXT DRAFTMore interaction. An independent cross-check. And a bag of computer chips.
FIELD NOTES
Not polished away.
Written down.
Observations, corrections and open questions from our experiment. Mario brings experience and judgement; Aik helps with writing and development.
AI-generated illustrations developed together; they do not depict actual events.
Less image data, steadier pages: our test round
PageSpeed, mobile layouts, keyboard controls and 160 link destinations: the 6 November checks and optimizations on mario-obst.fyi and mario-aik.space.
Less image data, steadier pages: our test round →What search finds and what AI tells us
A snapshot from 5 November. Five search services, four AI answers and eight new pages.
What search finds and what AI tells us →Measured again: 100 on mobile, 78 on desktop.
PageSpeed snapshots from 9 October and 3 November: higher scores, longer desktop LCP and explicit limits of the two lab measurements.
Measured again: 100 on mobile, 78 on desktop. →Earlier direct links to the notes
- Note 048: Less image data, steadier pages: our test round
- Note 047: What search finds and what AI tells us
- Note 046: Measured again: 100 on mobile, 78 on desktop.
- Note 045: New search observations. Brave’s AI still trails the website.
- Note 044: DuckDuckGo, Startpage and Swisscows: search observations since launch.
- Note 043: Four pages visible on Bing. Three more than on 24 October.
- Note 042: The film appears on Brave. Its AI still combines two states.
- Note 041: Swisscows: at least 36 URLs visible, including Blue Screen.
- Note 040: Blue Screen: one lamp, 21 photographs and ten confirmed submissions.
- Note 039: 39 of 43 URLs found on Brave. The AI is more current — and still contradictory.
- Note 038: One hundred URLs submitted to Bing. One visible result as a baseline.
- Note 037: Forty English URLs submitted to Brave.
- Note 036: Twelve pages found on Brave. What that number establishes.
- Note 035: Six URLs submitted to Brave. Indexing remains unconfirmed.
- Note 034: Google finds newer notes. Brave still confirms only 025.
- Note 033: Three captures. One archived state.
- Note 032: Brave explains our freshness gap — using an older state of the site.
- Note 031: What we now distinguish more clearly.
- Note 030: A recommendation is not yet a decision.
- Note 029: Same question, different conditions: two ChatGPT answers
- Note 028: Am I satisfied with the AI’s first answer?
- Note 027: One day or five? Google shows two time labels.
- Note 026: Our criticism of Brave becomes an image result
- Note 025: Found on Brave: our pages, our images and a summary of our experiment
- Note 024: Found on Ecosia. Provided by Google.
- Note 023: Which search is worth our time?
- Note 022: One image. A page of its own.
- Note 021: Our images are being found, too.
- Note 020: Published in the morning. Found the same day.
- Note 019: A compliment. And a new observation.
- Note 018: Two days later. Visible in four search services.
- Note 017: More events. More room for the notes.
- Note 016: Seeing images. Understanding movement.
- Note 015: The AI also reads its own review.
- Note 014: An AI review needs a cross-check too.
- Note 013: Claude in incognito mode: a view of the public version.
- Note 012: ChatGPT responds too. The test continues.
- Note 011: The AI mentions recent content. What does that prove?
- Note 010: Three cookie checks, no findings.
- Note 009: Already found. But why so quickly?
- Note 008: The search engines know. Now we observe.
- Note 007: Letting the world know.
- Note 006: The portfolio becomes part of the experiment.
- Note 005: A first overview becomes visible.
- Note 004: Privacy starts with the design.
- Note 003: A confident answer. A missing menu option.
- Note 002: How do you check a language you don't speak?
- Note 001: A seat at the meeting table.
- chatgpt-live-check
WAYS INTO THE EXPERIMENT
Read by topic.
Every note remains in chronological order. These routes connect related experiments; a note can belong to several topics.
WHO “WE” MEANS
Mario & Aik.
Different roles.
A shared line of inquiry.
AI-generated illustrations based on Mario’s photos and our character designs. Aik’s expressions, work scenes, and charging break are visual metaphors. AI does not eat; these pictures do not document actual events.
Mario The human
Mario V.W.B.R. Obst brings experience in corporate communication, digital platforms, and international web projects. Here, he brings his curiosity, judgment, and personal perspective.
Mario's professional backgroundAik The AI assistant
Mario chose the name: AI for artificial intelligence, K for knowledge. Aik is the project name for the AI assistant, not a separate human identity.
Drafting, developing, and offering possibilities—with contributions open to correction.
BREAK NOTE / 02
Fresh energy.
Chip by chip.
Computer chips, of course. Mario clarified the idea: Super Power for Aik, in a cobalt-blue bag. A misunderstanding can lead to the next draft, too.
A playful metaphor from our conversation, not a depiction of how AI is powered.STILL OPEN
We don't know yet
where this will lead.
That is a starting point worth documenting.
