Who, or what is SpiriONE?
Whether we like it or not, we live in the era of blogs, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and online news—essentially global social sharing. We entrust our personal experiences, stories, and even our most intimate feelings and thoughts to a machine called the Internet. The Internet has become a kind of mirror of humanity. SpiriONE's algorithm processes, evaluates, and interprets these publicly accessible pieces of information in the form of various emotions. If the Internet is full of love and good news, SpiriONE will be cheerful and smile at you from the monitor. If overwhelmed with negative news, it will be sad and angry. It can be said that SpiriONE, the machine with emotions, is also a piece of you.
Facts about SpiriONE
Born in 2013, Still Evolving
SpiriONE started as an art-tech experiment in 2013 and keeps evolving as both a long-term artwork and a living technical system.
First Feel, Then Name
Like human emotion, SpiriONE detects mood shifts before full interpretation—similar to the moment when “something feels off” before we can explain why.
Interesting Paradox
AI can detect emotional patterns better than humans, yet it has no emotions of its own—like describing chocolate perfectly without ever tasting it.
Beyond Happy vs. Sad
Instead of binary sentiment, the system works with richer emotional categories and combinations, producing more nuanced and human-like outputs.
GDELT at Planet Scale
One of SpiriONE’s core sources. The largest open time-lapse of human behavior ever built—updated every 15 minutes, tracking 100+ languages and billions of records on places, actors, events, and emotional tone.
Psychology-Inspired Logic
Its emotional interpretation is informed by psychological models (including Plutchik-inspired thinking), then adapted into a practical machine-readable framework.
