Ai vs AI: Question 4/81
Love or hate, which lasts longer?
Ai Weiwei: Love and hate are not a pair of strictly opposing antonyms. Love inherently includes elements of hate, just as hate includes the absence of love. The coexistence of love and hate represents a phenomenon akin to a return to zero.
ChatGPT (AI), January 2024: The duration of love or hate is subjective and depends on the individuals involved. Both emotions can persist over time, but their longevity varies based on circumstances.
ChatGPT (AI), January 2025: Love and hate both have the potential to last a lifetime, but they endure in different ways.
Love tends to evolve. Romantic passion may fade, but deep love—whether in friendships, family, or purpose—can grow stronger over time. Love is often nurtured and sustained by care, trust, and shared experiences.
Hate, on the other hand, can be intense but also exhausting. It often burns bright and then fades, unless constantly fueled by resentment or injustice.
In many cases, love lasts longer because it builds connections, while hate often withers without ongoing reinforcement. However, unresolved hate, especially when tied to deep wounds, can linger just as long—sometimes even beyond a lifetime, passed down through generations.
Ultimately, love has the power to heal and endure, while hate is more likely to consume and fade unless actively sustained.
DeepSeek (AI), January 2025: The question of whether love or hate lasts longer is deeply philosophical and can vary depending on individual experiences, cultural perspectives, and psychological factors. Here’s an exploration of both emotions and their potential longevity:
Love
Nature of Love: Love is often seen as a positive, nurturing emotion that fosters connection, empathy, and growth. It can manifest in various forms, such as romantic love, familial love, friendship, or self-love.
Longevity of Love:
Love has the potential to last a lifetime, especially when it is rooted in deep emotional bonds, mutual respect, and shared experiences. In relationships, love can evolve over time, transitioning from passionate love to a more enduring, compassionate bond. Love can also persist even after the loss of a loved one, as memories and emotional connections remain.
Challenges: Love requires effort, communication, and vulnerability to sustain. Without these, it can fade or transform into indifference or resentment.
Hate
Nature of Hate: Hate is a strong, negative emotion often rooted in fear, anger, or a sense of injustice. It can be directed toward individuals, groups, or even abstract concepts.
Longevity of Hate: Hate can persist for a long time, especially when fueled by unresolved grievances, trauma, or societal divisions. Unlike love, which often seeks connection, hate thrives on separation and opposition, which can make it self-sustaining. Hate can be passed down through generations, perpetuated by cultural, political, or familial narratives.
Challenges: Hate is often corrosive, consuming the person who harbors it and leading to emotional and psychological harm. While it can last a long time, hate may eventually dissipate if the underlying causes are addressed or if the individual chooses forgiveness and healing.
Comparison
Love tends to be more resilient and transformative, capable of enduring through challenges and evolving over time. It often leaves a positive legacy.
Hate, while potentially long-lasting, is more destructive and can be exhausting to maintain. It often leaves a negative impact on both the individual and society.
Conclusion
While both love and hate can endure, love generally has a greater capacity for longevity and positive impact. Hate, though powerful, often consumes itself over time. Ultimately, the choice to nurture love or hate lies within the individual, and cultivating love is more likely to lead to personal and collective well-being.

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“Each Lego brick pixel represents a person”, says Ai Weiwei, who incorporates the plastic construction toy – a readymade material incorporated into many of his most recent works – into his print design for the first time. The black egalitarian pixel font and embossed baseplate combine technology with artisanal craft to create this thought-provoking and playful reflection on today’s world. Each print in the series of 81 Questions is hand-signed and numbered by the artist in editions of 81.
John: <3
Melisa: Absence of love is synonymous with ignorance. Understanding or acceptance is the absence of hate. Understanding tends to endure longer than unattentiveness & while duration may vary, likelihood of hate diminishing overtime is higher.
soheil Seraji: waiting, waiting, waiting... love taught me wait? or wait taught me love? *** (persian:) ،انتظار ،انتظار ...انتظار انتظار عشق را به من آموخت؟ یا عشق انتظار را؟
Trixi: Clearly love, love never dies. Even when we hate, it is in the smallest part of you, and unfolds its new power as soon as the hate is extinguished.
Olwen coughlan: Love is eternal. Passed on generation after generation. Love is endless. Hate is transitional It can rise up suddenly but will subside once memory of wrong doing has faded. On occasion it can carry through generations. Hate has the capacity to end all time and that is why we must love, for eternity depends on it.
Tevary russell: Love is the ultimate power of the universe , not only here on earth but In the Sun and other celestial bodies Hate is a figment of pain here on earth and will live as long as we do
Christina Kyriakidou: Definitely love. Love transcends time, space and matter. Most of us still love our loved ones who are no longer amongst the living. But when it comes to hate, this rarely is the case. Most times, hate will either turn into guilt, pity, indifference or oblivion, after a hated person passes away.
Jacob Canet-Gibson: They both will last for as some form of conscious is able to perceive them.
Samuel Alejandro Sarracino: Hate is a destructive force with a negative valence. So it can tend to consume the people who experience it. On the other hand, love can bear fruit that transcends beyond the person who experiences it, tending to grow and multiply.
Andrew Furst: Love and hate. These are two very special human expressions of our inner dialog. They manifest in useful behavior: Love leads to sexual love which leads to new humans; something which is both satisfying and a function of our genome's primary directive to replicate. Hate also has useful purpose. It serves to protect our worldview and our clan - those most closely related to us genetically. As inherited "instincts" they are well known to us and have the illusion of permanence, but like all emotions and thoughts, they come in short bursts in response to our immediate environment. I find that as time goes by within relationships based on love, the frequency of feeling strong feelings of love decrease dramatically, and only resurface in response to a threat to the relationship. Hate, can vary, based on the fragility of your world view (all of them are fragile to one degree or another). When circumstances or people frequently challenge your world view, hate can come and go very frequently. But when your world view is either resilient or flexible enough, hate is less likely to arise. My conclusion is that hate can last longer when you have a particularly fragile and vulnerable world view.
Andrea: The lack of love doesnt' mean hate; while the lack of hate doesn't mean love. But if we relate these two feeling with humans, if at the end of all time will remain only two persons, the love will prevails.
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