2024 03 02
An outtake from my “Keep it 100” portrait sessions. Chicago, Illinois. January, 2024. © Clayton Hauck
AI sources its “inspiration” from existing imagery. They grab millions, if not billions, of images and feed them into a massive neural computer network. Many, if not most, of the images are made by artists with no interest in training a computer model. Some of the images are illegal. Child pornography that got sucked into the system in the corporate drive to automate systems to train other systems on the biggest pool of imagery possible.
What interests me is what happens in 5-10 years when (if?) most content is AI generated. It will become a Digital Doom Loop of artificial reality. AI systems training themselves on artificial material made by other AI systems ad infinitum. Language will shift based on what the computers interpret to be language. If we can’t understand the computers, we’ll lose our grip on them, so we’ll be forced to bend to their automated will.
Anyway, have a nice weekend.
-Clayton
