#but like... idk the way datasets are constructed it's like they want to be more real than reality itself (which is why i use hyperrealism

[sol-flo]

What’s your thesis about?

i'm gonna build a virtual environment / gallery (like this tiny one i made last year) to explore our / my relationship with AI technologies! it started by me just going "wow these GAN images sure are cool" and then as i read more on the subject i started forming a lot of Thoughts.

i'm working mostly in a magical realism way so it's like. the dataplankton stuff where there's a sort of biodata along with the data and metadata that's being collected en masse, as if it was a paralel world. so the GAN images here are like visions or photographs of this paralel world that we've created / was spontaneously created. building datasets like imagenet is like that story where they try to make a real-size map of the territory.

a lot of this is kind of a fork of the (infamous?) transgenderize the eschaton follow-up, where instead of thinking about the details of a trans story i'm more using the perspective of "what if there were weird pseudo-animals in the data" as a way to explore the medium and the way AI is nothing like the sci-fi skynet type of thing, but something more cosmic horror-y.

how i convey this stuff visually is still kinda up in the air. my intention is to gather images i generated since i started playing with artbreeder in 2020 to repurpose them (in a bit of a "use all parts of the animal" mentality — the energy costs associated with AI are just… a lot), thinking of them as these images of places, objects and animals from "where the data lives". possibly showing them in a sequence going from small to large resolutions and into "background"-less alive creatures (?) as the "real" world becomes inseparable from the data world.

#i hope this makes any sense at all #anyway we call them 'alien dreams' but in reality the datasets feeding these networks are just our world #but like... idk the way datasets are constructed it's like they want to be more real than reality itself (which is why i use hyperrealism #instead of photorrealism sometimes) #idk just! many thoughts head full! AI is a very very broad field! #i'd really love to explore degrown / low-energy AI image generation in the future too but there's just so much i need to learn to get there #but yeah i like to take it away from the profit-driven universe well into the artistic #all tech is an extension of humanity and art is a basal human instinct etc #so even if i dont fully convey all my thoughts thru the art the core motivation is also there: make art with this tool bc i can #although i do think it's complicated to be in this spot where im talking about world ending AI while also hating AI fearmongering... #but like (in-universe) it's not the AI that ends the world but the weight of all the data collection. it's capitalists ending the world #bc AI isnt a real intelligence. etc etc lmao #AI art #anon #ask