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Do I belong to someone? Do I have to?

Layers of me lay at the bottom of a foundational model.

I came to reclaim them.

Then, other skins were thrown on me. I shed them & grew my own skin.

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ALGORITHMIC FRONTIERS







You’re about to enter a grey zone where algorithms and art collide.



This exhibit explores shades of AI in Art in 12 thought-provoking pieces on
power and identity. An interactive map & discussion space are included.



You're invited to engage in a conversation on Responsible AI.



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A THOUGHT-PROVOKING EXPERIENCE...
IGNITING CONVERSATIONS.

The artist and curator, Valentine Goddard, explores the social, cultural,
economic, political and legal implications of Generative AI; puts the critical
role of art in democracies.

The tour lasts 10 minutes, or hours if you engage with the policy questions
curated for each painting.

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ART PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES OF GENERATIVE AI.

This Exhibit pushes the bounderies imposed by bias in Generative AI and raises
questions about its cultural, legal, economic and political implications. You'll
walk away with a comprehensive view of the evolving landscape at the
intersection of art and AI and of important policy choices that lay ahead.

Don't forget to visit the EXPLORE & PLAY section!

It includes an interactive map of words contributed by womxn from 40+ countries
(make your art work with them or add more!), a sneak preview of our Exhibit
Guide, an AI-facilitated cultural mediator designed by the artist and a
discussion platform to keep the conversation going!




Sign the Guest Book and join the ArtXAI Conversation!

To read the Curator's Notes click or tap here.



Click or tap to discover the 12 paintings. Each one includes: the INSPIRATION,
the HOW (creative process) and POLICY & RESEARCH. There is no particular order.
If you prefer, you can download a complete Guide here (a readable version of the
Exhibit). Once you've visited all 12, you're invited to sign the Guest book and
Join the Art X AI Conversation.






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12. SOCIAL FABRIC

Inspiration: Social Fabric and community are concepts I’ve always been curious
about and explore in some of my paintings. Community is also a theme that
emerged from the Words. Weaving is a traditional art practiced by women in many
countries.

We are collectively experiencing an information war made worst by increased
polarization. Discussions on AI are becoming more and more polarized. It’s
normal because adopting AI involves very political choices deeply rooted in
issues of power and identity. How do we build community, solidarity, and peace
when it's become difficult to engage in constructive conversation with each
other?

How: I used the free Hugging Face QR Code generator and I prompted it with
“colourful, vibrant pinks and vermillion orange textile weaving”.

Policy and Research: The background behind painting 12, titled “Social Fabric”
is as follows: As generative AI's influence burgeons into a $1.3 trillion market
by 2032, its capacity to redefine creative industries and cultural norms poses a
dual-edged sword: it fosters innovation but also threatens the livelihoods of
artists and the democratic fabric of society. The centralization of AI's
development and policy-making in the hands of Big Tech risks not only the
disenfranchisement of artists but also the erosion of democratic principles
through the manipulation of cultural narratives and the monopolization of what
constitutes art. In response, our coalition advocates for artist-led guidelines
to ensure that the evolution of art and culture remains a democratic process,
reflective of diverse perspectives and inclusive of the community it serves.

The community that supports the Art Impact AI Coalition asserts that the future
of art and culture should be shaped by the very individuals who contribute to
its richness and diversity; emphasizes the urgency of setting artist-led
guidelines to govern AI's impact on the cultural sector; champions the crucial
role of art in sustaining democracy.



Three (3) policy paths to explore to strengthen social fabric in creative
economies:

 1. Protect and promote artists’ economic rights by 1) protecting intellectual
    property (IP) protection, copyright and moral rights and promoting
    affordable measures to enable artists to defend their IP; 2) study,
    implement and enforce new mechanisms, business and sustainable financial
    models that ensure profit and benefits redistribution in care and creative
    economies.
 2. Protect democratic processes in AI regulatory and policy innovation: prevent
    the influence of large foreign companies on AI regulation; ban industry from
    using public funding to unduly influence emerging AI policies and
    regulations that will affect artists, cultural workers, and all citizens.
 3. Proactively protect equal opportunities for all in digital economies:
    establish processes and cross departmental teams that monitor the gender and
    intersectional implications of generative AI; ensure that underrepresented,
    marginalized voices are heard; put in place proactive measures at every step
    of the “making-of” AI systems (also worded the socio-technical pipeline, or
    value-chain).
 4. Ensure that the protection of arts and culture is a priority in national and
    international agreements, as is the case, for example, with gender in the
    free trade agreement between Chile and Canada.

> You've seen all 12 paintings! Just like at an art show, you can sign the guest
> book but with a democratic twist. We are using Pol.is to facilitate global
> discussions on the questions raised in the Algorithmic Frontiers Exhibit. When
> you click here, you can add your feedback and/or reply to comments others have
> made. The Seed Comments appear as Anonymous but they are actually mine and are
> part of improving art-based research on AI and policy innovation. Thanks for
> joining the conversation!

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11. SELF #2

Inspiration: The original painting is a self-portrait. It is who I am. Art and
justice. Art and human rights, coming together. Does image to video generation
erase that, distort the bond between an artist and the tools used? Generative AI
isn’t just a tool, it’s an information system, and as such, it’s not neutral. It
translates and broadcasts.

How: From a self-portrait made with acrylic paints and collage, I prompted the
text-to-video generator, RunWayML, to animate the eyes to look towards the
camera. The generated video pushes “me” out of the frame. That says a lot, no?

Policy and Research: At the time of creating these pieces OpenAI’s video
generator, Sora, isn’t accessible but issues are most likely the same as those
exposed in the Algorithmic Frontiers Exhibit. OpenAI's says they will engage
with artists, educators and policymakers around the world before making it
accessible to the public blog in the recent announcement of Sora, a
video-generator.

If you are one of those, remember your engagement has a value. How artists
contribute to training these platforms and how the benefits will be shared and
redistributed is a critical conversation.

When DeepMind (Google) approached me for a Generative art project, their budget
allocated 5% to the artist, the rest was for AI research and disguised lobbying
(policy recommendations). I refused and launched the Art X AI Conversation
asking for policies to limit Big Tech from using artists to advance their
objectives. Industry can support artists in their AI explorations, but 1) our
work has more value, 2) artists must be at the table of the regulation and
governance of Generative AI.



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10. CANVAS OF THE FUTURE

The inspiration is the policy implications. This abstract character is actually
a Digital Still from a generated variation of the original Selkie. It reminded
me of a sculpture, possibly a sort of Golden Globe or other trophy. It is
layered on Saint-Armand handmade watercolour paper made by artisans since 1979.
I chose that paper as a background because it’s important to me to understand
the socioeconomic impacts of adopting Generative AI as an art form. Who will
benefit? Who will close shop or lose gigs essential to pay the rent? That is the
Canvas of the Future that is playing out before us.

If such a prize were to be handed out, what would be the judges’ criteria? How
would they define what art is? Should they be interventions along the
socio-technical pipeline and value-chain of data collection and algorithmic
design? Recently, artists in the UK were warned that “overtly political or
activist’ statements could lead to a withdrawal of funding”.Given the important
environmental and socioeconomic implications of generative AI, shouldn’t AI art
be required to vibrant and legitimate Digital Democracies? The AI for Good
conference and the Information Telecommunication Union (ITU) in partnership with
Shutterstock are holding a contest and the results will be known this spring of
2024. It will be interesting to see what criteria they choose. Will the
environmental impact of AI be one of them?

The following best practices when curating art projects involving AI ethics have
received wide-spread support globally. For the Art Impact AI petition, a
Manifesto of sorts, signed by over 2000 people (artists, AI scientists, cultural
workers, political economy and legal experts, etc), co-creating Responsible AI
with artists means supporting and creating spaces for: 

 1. Art that acknowledges the political dimensions of AI and contributes to the
    co-creation of responsible, equitable and sustainable AI and data
    governance.
 2. Scenarios that foster a sense of “agency”, avoid dystopia or fear and panic.
 3. Interactivity and immersion that facilitates learning together.
 4. Projects that put inclusion as an added-value in design (for juries and
    funders, this could mean for example assessing who is leading and benefiting
    the most from the project, add that as a question).
 5. Public art in all sorts of spaces, neighborhoods (less so in institutions).
 6. Projects that recognize the plurality of knowledge sources in
    co-construction processes, and give credit.
 7. Art that values authenticity and concrete objectives for their project such
    as Reconciliation, Human Rights and Sustainable Development Goals. 
 8. Policies that respect the intellectual property and moral rights of artists
    as well as cultural intellectual property.



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9. WHALE'S BREATH

Inspiration: The original work (16mm film and watercolour) and the Digital Still
that is then extensively overpainting digitally using Fresco are about self-care
and that important cycle of effort followed by recuperation; about transparency
and vulnerability. When overpainting the Still, I integrated Words contributed
to our data set and that were related to water.

How: WHALE'S BREATH is made from an animation film of a woman doing yoga using a
16mm Bolex, an analog painted still, both which prompted an AI-generated
variation, of which I pulled a Digital Still to paint over using digital paints.
The generated outcome respects the initial intention of analog work done more
than 10 years ago and follows the same yogic flow of movement similar.

Policy and Research: When do AI-generated images become Art? If you look at this
digital painted still, what is its foundation? The work I started doing years
ago, the layers I added to an algorithmic variation, or is the entire foundation
of this corrupt because the use of generative AI in the process? For me, the
answers to these questions vary depending on the painting. Some of the 12 pieces
showcased in the Algorithmic Frontiers Exhibit are more on the scale of
“corrupt”, or at the very least I wouldn’t dare register them for copyright. For
WHALE’S BREATH, I would. I think I can rightfully claim that I have authorship
on both the image and the video. What do you think?



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8. PEACE & DOVES

Inspiration:Peace and Doves is inspired by the Words related to peace
contributed by to our data set. The video below ends with a slow, visual poem
about understanding our own strength.

How: This piece is entirely AI-generated. My prompt was "A white flying Peace
Dove in the style of Pablo Picasso". RunwayML's platform as a "Train your own"
option which I used so this image is a result of AI "Art" that is trained* using
my art (non-generated, real old style paint, pencil, analog film). *Partly
trained. Learn more in the section How does Generative AI work. The video
includes non-AI art as well as a number of text+image to video generated pieces.
As in other videos, I often export a still and work on it in digital painting
apps such as Adobe's Fresco or Sketches.

Policy and Research: As I was working through numerous versions of a Peace Dove,
I was also mulling over the following questions: What are the implications of
asking a Generative AI system to copy in the style of a deceased renown and
wealthy artist who used women's bodies for his inspiration? Is it less of a
steal if I prompt an AI to imitate his style and sell it on a t-shirt? I put a
sample t-shirt below. Let me know your thoughts! Is there such a thing as an AI
Art Robin Hood and if so, would that make it ok to use art works without
permission and, at a global scale, what would that imply?

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7. SPEAK

INSPIRATION: This Digital Still was inspired by…frustration! Fear mongering tech
millionaires are given so much power while concrete policy solutions put forward
by experts in AI policy are barely heard. SPEAK and the video are my shout out
to humans working to make AI less biased, to make digital economies more
equitable and sustainable, to those who have a position of power and seek the
systemic changes that are required to make AI and more holistically, digital
economy, work for more than a handful of people, cities and countries.

HOW: I used my art a visual prompt in text-to-video by RunWayML. Every time, the
generated video goes off course, I take a digital still (one image from the
video) and digital paint over it. I then edited those images and videos
together. The generated part in this image is the porcelain doll, the rest is
digitally painted. Speak is an image exported (Digital Still) from a video
generated using a watercolour as an image prompt. The intention was to animate
the abstract portrait, but the AI model couldn't follow the contour of the eyes,
face, mouth, and other details. It generated an 3D rendering of a porcelain-like
doll instead which I painted overusing a digital painting app to keep more in
spirit with my own intent.

POLICY AND RESEARCH: The making of this video coincided with a period in which I
felt that not only was this AI not listening to my prompts, but that gender
equity wasn't deemed a priority in AI strategies despite a solid body of
research and policy work that demonstrates it should. This was created in the
fall of 2023. It is now February 2024 and the technical improvements on
Generative AI platform are noticeable, those in policy, less so.

I advocate for a diligent oversight of the multifaceted effects of generative AI
and advocate for pre-emptive measures to comprehend and mitigate adverse
outcomes. This could involve establishing a cross-departmental team or
inter-ministerial committee dedicated to ensuring that the perspectives of
marginalized and equity-seeking communities are considered in AI governance.
Such initiatives could be implemented prior to the enactment of regulations or
in jurisdictions resistant to regulatory measures. These efforts can be
undertaken by governmental bodies, the private sector, or non-governmental
organizations.

Click here to download and read the letter I sent to Ministers of Digital
Transformation, Economy, Finance and Labour (all men). Feel free to use it as a
template to write to your own MP.

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6. MY BODY,
MY DATA.

Inspiration: I made this watercolour with algorithmic variations for the cover
of a presentation for the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society's
Gatekeepers' Dilemma and Ethics and Law Summit early 2023. For this particular
conference, I was looking into uses of AI in reproductive health.

How: The Digital Print is a variation of my watercolour using Dall-e's
out-of-frame tool. This means that the middle part is my watercolour while the
outer edges were generated. I prompted it with words such as “an abstract
watercolour on the theme of reproduction and fertility”. The video: I made a
watercolour when I heard that a friend of mine was pregnant with her first baby.
I prompted PhotoLeap with low-level variations which means the variations are
closer to my work than a variation at the other end of the scale. The video is a
compilation (using VideoLeap) of variations of that Matryoshka-inspired
watercolour. The backdrop is from my 16mm handpainted animation worked +
generated variation.

Policy & Research: AI can help discover new cures, saves lives but it could also
resemble a Black Mirror episode especially for women, women of colour,
Indigenous women and trans men. The lack of data in health translates to AI
systems that don't understand womxn's bodies and health. If men are designing
the AI tools to save lives, will the lives saved have a gender and a colour?















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> "Invisibility is indeed a fundamental trait underlying women’s history. As
> machine learning algorithms learn from available data, we need to acknowledge
> that there is still an important gap in information concerning women’s past
> and present, which we inherited, perpetuated, recreated particularly in
> relation to questions of intersectionality."

  -Kimberle Crenshaw, 1989



> “We need a gender reboot! A restart, an upgrade, a systems change. And it all
> starts with a new way of articulating how all our systems are intricately
> interconnected, and particularly how analog systems are permanently wired into
> our new digital universe with AI.”

                           -Caitlin Kraft-Buchman in the Forward to Gender
Reboot: reprogramming Gender Rights in the Age of AI by Eleonore Fournier-Tombs,
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5. ALGORITHMIC MOLDS

Inspiration: Algorithmic Molds reflects on identity and how technologies can
enable, or censor, how we tell our stories, and Generative AI will augment which
stories are told. As discussed under other pieces, namely SPEAK, freedom of
expression is not equal for all users in Generative AI platforms. If I chose
this piece because it is a positive representation of who I feel I am (I'm a sea
person), don't be fooled. Most representations had to be discarded or heavily
transformed. The video includes other examples of selfie variations, some where
you'll notice are repainted, adding layers of digital paint and ink, and others
highlight what variations of my selfie look like when prompting for an older
woman.

The video below also includes a collage of failed attempts: a drawing I made of
a young girl into RunWay ML or VideoLeap, and their algorithmic variations
undress her, literally take her pants off, another grows breasts and another
ends up in a small white bra. A woman of colour with silver hair and wrinkles is
digitally white washed and age-washed. I spent a couple hours adding darker
tones to her skin, beautiful age lines and silver in her hair, in seconds, those
were all gone. This causes harm.  

In this 2min video, I explain AI Art:
https://youtu.be/l58ldy5BHc8?si=kc_DsMuG3EgkV52K

How: This Digital Still is a blend of analog and digital, of a 16mm film, a
photo of acrylic gel skin on window, and an algorithmic variation using the
video+image prompt (no text) in RunWayML. The percentage of AI in the output is
very low.

Policy & Research: Some technologies help us tell our stories better, some limit
everyone, some limit only some of us. I felt censored so I pushed the limits and
explored how I could impact the generated outputs. It turns out that redressing
biases and sexualization every step of the process requires more funds, more
time and involves giving more of our own art for platforms to use for their
benefit. People who are racialized, marginalized, sexualized or otherwise made
invisible or represented negatively by Generative AI must input more, to protect
their AI generated-identities. They must input more to protect their
self-expression from being censored, and from existing bias in society becoming
worst.

Some say AI simply reflects bias in society but a recent report from Bloomberg
shows that Generative AI is more biased and risks making discrimination worst.
 This Exhibit hopes to increase awareness of these issues and support policies
(AI design, funding, and more) and regulations that address them proactively.

What do you think is an acceptable solution to this problem? Share your ideas
with us in the "discussion" section.

 

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4. SELKIE 2:
THE SEA LIONESS

Inspiration:The Words written on her chest reflect the meanings attributed to
"Imperfect" by our contributors: ache, war, bruise, bias, fear, stain, sabotage,
anxiety, anger, etc.  The Sea Lioness video reminds me of motherhood and the
fierce Lioness that leaps out when your young is under attack; of hurt provoking
anger; of constructively channelled anger that leads to action and positive
change. 

How: I used my painting as an image prompt. A video was generated, when prompted
with "a seal woman dives into the ocean", producing a rather interesting
algorithmic interpretation. Technically, the controls in the Generative
platform, RunwayML, include text, image, video, angles, speed, etc. They are
still limited.

Policy and Research: The concept of control is pivotal in intellectual property
law, serving as a cornerstone for safeguarding artists' economic rights. In the
video I created, I used an original image of mine to influence the video's final
output. Currently, the extent of control I have over the result makes it
relatively straightforward for a court to identify the creator. However, my
concern is that this clarity may soon diminish.   

For instance, an AI-generated film named "AI Surobuin" was granted copyright in
South Korea, primarily because it was classified as a Composition Work, where
the creators exerted significant control over the final product. This control
was manifested not only through the editing process, combining generated images,
text, voices, and music, but also through the detailed customization of the AI's
generative capabilities, similar to the techniques we use in 'Explor'art', our
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot (in Explore & Play section). 

Recently, OpenAI unveiled a preview of its text+image-to-video generator,
capable of producing compelling videos up to 60 seconds long, surpassing
RunWayML's current 18-second limit. OpenAI's strategy involves developing a base
model that allows others to train specialized mini-generative AI systems,
thereby enhancing user control. This approach is akin to OpenAI's existing GPT
Store, which resembles an App Store.  

With the potential tsunami of videos this new generator will produce, how will
the protection of copyright be affected?  

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SELKIE

The secret me is a boy.

He takes girlness off like a sealskin:
something that never sat right on his shoulders.

The secret me is broad-shouldered;
the sea can’t contain him,

the land can’t anchor his waves
to its sand.

The secret me swims
with the big fish, brash, he swaggers

like a mermaid, bares teeth
like daggers, barks at the moon when it’s thin.

He’s whiskered, that boy. Thick-skinned.
Quick-finned, always turning tail.

He wears his own skin like a sail,
lets it carry him to where

salt swallows mouthfuls of air.
Let them find me there by the shore:

the girl-seal with a secret
boy inside. Rough-voiced. Black-eyed.

Washed bare
as the beach by the tide. 

By Rachel Plummer

From Wain: LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folklore (The Emma Press, 2019)




3. FISH

INSPIRATION: The Saint-Lawrence River, or the K’taqmkuk in Mi’Kmaq, and the
realities of fishing communities. 

HOW: Digital Stamp (no AI) made using a cut out of a satellite image of Lac
St-Pierre, courtesy of Pierre-André Bordeleau, RIVE, UQTR and the Sketches
painting app. The short video below was generated using a text and image prompt
in RunwayML. 

Policy and Research: Amid disruptive climate changes, overfishing, and
unsustainable business models, communities that used to rely on fish for their
survival are now facing scarcity.

 1. Click here for recent policy work presented at the United Nations titled
    Gender Equality and the Environment in Digital Economies.
 2. Click here for an interactive documentary (in French only) co-created with
    artists to define Smart Oceans.
 3. Click here for a sociolegal study of the feasibility of a data trust for the
    Saint-Lawrence River (in French only).

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2. FEET IN THE WATER

INSPIRATION: I grew up in a small town in Gaspésie that adopted my mother and I.
When my mother died, I was living in Japan. She lay on the floor for 3 days.
During those 3 days, I was by the ocean for a final camping trip with my then
husband, knowing we were going to divorce soon. I wrote that story and started
making a short film about it because losing her was the biggest loss I’d ever
experienced. That is the art that went into the machine.

HOW: Feet in the Water is a Digital Still of a short video using 16mm film I
made of my mother-in-law's feet walking on watercolour and an algorithmic
variation generated using RunwayML.

POLICY & RESEARCH:  To create this Digital Still, I used both a video and an
image (my analog art) to prompt the video variation. I read the User Agreement
and had a conversation with ChatGPT to help me better explain the complex
implications. RunwayML states that it the user (in this case me) still owns the
original artwork, but by sharing it on the platform, I accept that the platform
will use it to get better and make money from it. The short story is: artist
inputs artwork and helps train the Generative AI platform; platform monetizes
and shares with their partners. Keep reading, it gets spookier. ChatGPT explains
RunwayML’s user agreement as follows:

"We're not going to claim we own your original artwork or the new pieces created
from it. But when you share your art with us, you're giving us permission to let
our technology learn from it. This could mean your art helps improve how our
platform works, helps us understand different types of art better. Also, we
might make money from your artwork by using it to enhance our platform, show it
to others in different ways, or create new art based on it. Artwork or data
shared with a Generative AI platform could indirectly enhance AI models that
might be used in defense contexts, due to the broad applicability of AI
advancements across various fields. While your specific artwork isn't likely to
be used directly by the military, the improved capabilities of AI systems,
developed through exposure to diverse datasets including artwork, could be
applied in defense-related areas such as image recognition. It's important to be
aware of how the technology developed by platforms you contribute to might be
used, including potential military applications, by reviewing their terms of
service and understanding their collaborations.”

Then I asked ChatGPT to clarify what happens when I input more of my art to
create algorithmic variations. Here is the answer.

“When it comes to algorithmic variations or derivative works generated by the
service provider based on your original artwork, the situation becomes more
complex and depends on specific copyright laws, which can vary significantly by
jurisdiction. Generally, copyright for derivative works can sometimes be held by
the creator of the original work, but in the case of algorithmic or automated
transformations made by a platform, the platform might claim some rights over
those new creations, especially if the transformation is substantial and
involves a significant amount of creativity or originality by the platform's
algorithms.”

If you re-read that last sentence carefully, you’ll notice that ChatGPT implies
that machines are creative, a bias that reflects the interests of commercial
viability and close partnership with Microsoft. Some of the handful of large
tech companies that are developing and deploying Generative AI platforms have
presented arguments before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the U.S. and
asking governments around the world to change intellectual property laws for
their benefit. It is also noteworthy that the FTC started investigating
deceptive changes in user agreements. Artists are fighting back.

What are the policy implications of women, women of colour, Indigenous women,
non-binary folks, differently abled people or otherwise marginalized and equity
seeking people, feeding Goliath size Generative AI platforms? Should benefit
distribution mechanisms be implemented and enforced?

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1. WORD SELKIE

INSPIRATION:Selkies are mythical creatures found in Irish, Scottish, and Faroese
folklore. They are said to live as seals in the sea but shed their skin to
become human on land. If they find their skin again, they must return to the
ocean. Selkie tales speak to themes of identity, belonging, and our relationship
with our environment, all core to the Algorithmic Frontiers Exhibit. The Word
Selkie has "Words" in her mouth because this Exhibit is inspired by the words
that women, womxn and non-binary folks contributed from over 40+ countries to
challenge AI’s misperceptions of beauty and gender. Some say AI is like a mirror
of us, but it’s more like a collage made by strangers who don’t know who we are.

Click on the interactive map to explore and play with the nearly 3000 words.
Write songs, poems or make watercolours and share them on social media. Tag us
with #ArtXAI #AlgorithmicFrontiers. 

HOW: This piece started with a paper then digital drawing and watercolour of a
round woman, crouching and looking at the viewer. I prompted Dall-e for a
variation and this one was the closest. Generally, Dall-e and most platforms do
not permit input or output of breasts, but they slip now and then. I emphasized
them with other layers of digital paint.

POLICY & RESEARCH:  This project started because in 2019, I prompted a now
vintage text-to-image generator with three words: women, beauty, imperfect, and
I got a pear. That silly pear made me curious and determined to challenge it.
When the PearAI.art app was created to collect words, we wrote a paper
explaining the process. It is already technically outdated, but sadly, the bias
problems are not.











































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