Tag: ai
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Ripping Reality reaction
Reading Reaction I really loved this chapter from Hito Steyerl’s Duty Free Art. My head is still spinning from how many ideas and thinkers she packed into this writing, and I anticipate I’ll uncover more ideas as I sit with the piece longer. However, the main thing I takeaway from this excerpt now is the…
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Are All Images now Poor Images?
Response to Poor Image This incredible article written by Hito Steyerl in 2009 analyzed the material conditions of the poor digitized image to a tee. The analysis is so on point that I feel this piece read the trend of corporate media to invest in profiting off of the digital ecosystem. “Digital communication has also…
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A Symphony of Guessing
coding project link From the prompt, the question that stood out to me the most was: “What do [neural networks] offer as media for our internal life?” Currently, my relationship for Large Language Models is one of pure function and text, not media or art. I ask Claude to help with my code. The model…
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Listening and Recording with P5.js
As part of our eventual Final Project for ICM and Physical Computing, Trusha and I decided to use this ICM Homework to test how well P5.js can listen and record conversation. We want to do this for our larger goal of using technology to help people remember interactions and make note-taking social interactions seamless and…
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Synthetic Media: 2.907 kWh per 1,000 inferences
Concept During our conversation in class last Wednesday, I felt a tension about AI and making art with it. The tension stems from the fact that AI image and video generation use an inordinate amount of electricity. The title of the video, 2.907 kWh per 1,000 inferences, is a reference to a study done by…
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Digital Playthings: AI Chatbots, Dating, and Who is Playing Who
Prompt: Why do you consider this synthetic media? What can you find out about how this was made (if you can)? If it’s machine learning based, can you find information about the data set used to train it? What are the ethical ramifications of this specific example (if any)? These days, AI’s increasing prevalence on…
