This paper aims to understand the ways that technological tools, specifically machine learning and generative computer programs, are used and the corresponding ethical implications and consequences from these uses. These tools, increasingly integrated in the way we communicate and interact, ultimately affect the view of the self. Considering the prevalence and availability of these tools, first we discuss machine learning as an innovation: what it is, how it works, and what it is actually doing. More specifically, we delve into the groups of people that are adversely affected by these technologies, from pointed attacks on niche communities in the training of models to widespread effects as we reveal the environmental effects of the global data centers required for the upkeep of these programs. As machine learning and generative computer programs can be used in a way that usurp artists’ work through the training process of these programs, I conducted my own experiments in machine learning and created an artistic piece in hopes to model imperfect solutions to using the innovation. A writer and a performer, I aim to use my art to make sense of the world that we live in and endeavor to let others in through my work. By immersing myself in the process of interface design, data cleaning, and the creation of basic machine learning and computer generation models, a key component of the developing world, I aimed to reduce the opacity of these programs and how they work as I incorporated them into my own artistic practice. Ultimately, it is up to the creator, of an artwork or of a computer program, to take ownership and accountability of these programs and their outputs. Machine learning, as it has its hooks in different aspects of society, acts as a mirror to society that affects self-formation, moving into the discussion of the origins of the study of selfhood and theories of how to view the self. I employ discussions of Dialogical Self Theory to illustrate my view of the self that permeates my piece, The HyperText Translation Portal. This research and my artistic practice open up the door for more experimentation in machine learning and poetry.