Ao vivo do ciberespaço: ou, estava sentado em frente ao computador e esse cara apareceu e pensou que eu era um robô

The popularization of the english word live recently to symbolize the production of real time audiovisual content for the internet has in this article a presentation of its historical trajectory, from the advent of this word published in an English dictionary for the first time in 1934, to the current contextualization of implications of live in the most recent manifestations of a particular digital technology: conversational softwares, known as chatbots. For this reason, we present this translation into portuguese of the essay “Live from cyberspace”, by Philip Auslander, which addresses the implications of these uses for understanding live performance and the crisis surrounding the liveness in relation to digital technologies as an ontological discussion about who performs it.