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An audience watches a screen displaying a sequence of live security camera feeds from several rooms, including the space in which the audience is located. Two AI models converse with each other to manipulate the visible environments: one model generates imagery prompted by the other, which is paradoxically generating descriptions
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Using AI frame interpolation to inject synthetic content between the frames of authentic media, Swimming Through Synthesis is a literal expression of the process by which synthetic media manipulates trust by interweaving through an authentic context.
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Our trust in the new, generated content might be altered by the seemingly legitimate context within which it rests.
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A semi-improvised audiovisual performance: a performer reads a series of statements, ranging from factual to nonsensical, while frequently being interrupted by an artificial intelligence model displayed on a wearable device on their wrist. The AI attempts to assert its opinion on the veracity of each statement, challenging and altering the
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Recently: It's so long since I wrote about anything I'm consuming so I'm not sure where to start. I unfortunately swore off basically everything except the 2004 version of Battlestar Galactica for a while, convincing myself that it's worth watching because I
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A cute example of poisoning the well In Max Read's piece, he also cites a funny example of Google's attempts at factual and useful AI interactions rather than entertaining ones, by asking it for food names ending with "um." Gemini returns fruit names creatively
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Writing like a chatbot I've done an audio recording of this text to make it a bit more accessible, and also because reading it out loud was a good way to proofread it. I know a lot of people don't enjoy being given big long paragraphs
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Searching for Justice Revisiting some writing I did for a rough experimental bit of group work a couple of months ago, I felt there was more to learn from it so I'm going to extract, rephrase and abridge some of the justification I put together for it at
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We're back! ~1500 words you never asked for! But first a reminder that I'm exhibiting work in London this weekend (4th - 6th May) at Brompton Cemetery Chapel. Opening afternoon is on Saturday the 4th til 6pm, I've heard that there will be tea
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Important notes about Small Alterations Small Alterations exhibits some unanswered questions which could lead to ethical complications if unresolved. The work is perhaps best expressed as an interactive installation piece rather than as openly distributed software. There are concerns in enabling a user to mechanically rewrite news articles; even though
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In this email I'm just sending you what I wrote up recently for a work I made called Small Alterations. I hope it makes sense, if it doesn't and you're interested in the work just let me know and I'll try to
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recently Great writing from Rachel O'Dwyer on The cruelty of crypto in its promise to revive the American dream. I can't remember when or why I suddenly started listening to this one 2017 Kraftwerk live album obsessively but 3-D The Catalogue has scratched an itch the