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In an act of “defying visualization,” black artists are using AI to tell their stories despite its obvious shortcomings.
A new online exhibition of work by black artists from Africa and its diaspora explores AI’s misrepresentation of black identity, offering a “fragmentary and perhaps even violent depiction.” they say there is.
As we now better understand, data, and by extension AI, reproduce the same human biases that have always existed in our everyday real life. In response, digital art platform Feral File’s ‘In/Visible’ brings together works that ‘look challenging’ by Black artists who are using AI to tell stories despite their inevitable shortcomings. .
“Black artists using AI today have to work harder than white artists to achieve results that they feel accurately represent them,” said Senegalese curator Linda Dounia told Artnet News. “They achieved this through tenacity and stubbornness, endlessly reprompting, correcting distortions, and editing stereotypes. They should be commended for their incredible tenacity, but it is not too difficult for them to participate in the emergence of new technologies.”
Typical examples of AI bias in Dounia’s experience include the lack of detail and definition of features such as facial and body distortions, hair, and the inability to understand cultural references such as braids and clothing types. You can “A prompt about ‘buildings in Dakar’ would probably return a desolate field with dilapidated buildings, but Dakar is a vibrant city with a rich architectural history,” she said. He also mentioned replicating stereotypes.
“For all the technologies developed in our time, AI feels like a missed opportunity to learn from the arduous legacy that older industries are struggling to untangle,” she added. “”can not see’ This is how black artists feel less alone in their experience of AI, have them express their challenges in ways that resonate both physically and emotionally, and reject the normalization of their exclusion in emerging technologies. . ”
In her curated statement, Dounia further sheds light on how data fails to adequately capture ambiguity and, at the same time, to “objectively” reflect our reality. “An instrument capable of logically measuring the mysteries of the universe and crushing the elusive to its most objective parts,” she described the data. “But what we measure and where and how we measure is influenced by who we are and where we stand relative to others.”
“In/Visible” is out now on Feral File. Preview the works from the exhibition below.
Adeze Okaro Planet Hibiscus #33. Image courtesy of Feral File.
Minne Atayl, Blonde Braid Study II. Image courtesy of Feral File.
Linda Dunia chez joe. Image courtesy of Feral File.
Zoe Osborne summer edition. Image courtesy of Feral File.
nigiria confetti. Image courtesy of Feral File.
Serwa Attahua, perceived. Image courtesy of Feral File.
Afroscope, Proof of the Spirit – Act Two. Image courtesy of Feral File.
arc light, Untitled. Image courtesy of Feral File.
Rayan Elnayar city and spaceship. Image courtesy of Feral File.
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