I thoroughly enjoyed Antonio Somaini’s lecture tonight on the Politics of Latent Spaces at the conference Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

His reflections on compression as a cultural and epistemic process were truly inspiring — and the sources cited were excellent, too ;)

#AI #LatentSpaces #DigitalCulture #Compression #Vectorization #NeuralNetworks #ArtAndAI #MachineVision #epistemiccompression #AIAesthetics @databasecultures

"Companies can’t launch a new AI venture without their customers telling them, clearly, “nobody wants this.” And yet they persist. Why? Class solidarity. The capitalist class, as a whole, has made a massive bet on AI: $1 trillion dollars,
[…] The right wing aesthetic project is to flood the zone with bullshit in order to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."—Gareth Watkins

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism >

https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

#AI #AIaesthetics #fascism #aesthetics #talentless #AIimages #PoliticalCruelty #AIgeneratedImages #techbros #technocracy #fascists #elite #TechElite #classism #ugliness #inhuman #abilities #artists #FakeArt #bullshit

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April 27, 2023
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http://www.animasuri.com/iOi/?p=5060

#AIethics #AIaesthetics #humanmade

High-Altitude Research

#aiart #AIaesthetics #scifiart