Category: Week 8 (March 5 + 7)

  • AI Kim K Spills Her Tech Industry Secret

    From celebrity Deepfakes to Elon Musk’s Tesla humanoid robots, AI Kim K is a short and satirical experimental film that briefly probes the misconceptions, hopes, and fantasies about artificial intelligence. Using AI-found footage and generative AI, the film prompts reflections on the technological singularity and the anthropomorphization of AI as agents of contemporary capitalism.  In…

  • Who is Tyrone? What is Clones? & other thoughts

    They Cloned Tyrone (2023) is a whirlwind of a film following characters Fontaine, Yo-Yo, and Slick Charles. A few questions I wanted to pose here: First and foremost, who is Tyrone? Our unseen title character perhaps poses the biggest question in the viewing. Of course, we see Tyrone at the end of the film and…

  • Equity A.I.

    *I want to preface this blog post by acknowledging the length of the video above. It is extensive, but I highly recommend watching it in its entirety as the information provided is very insightful and greatly applies to our class discussion of A.I. and race. It is no question that AI has the potential to…

  • Revealing conspiracy through stereotypes & Exploring Black Awakening through sci-fi

    Setting aside the cloning component, They Cloned Tyrone (2023)presents a twisted thriller, showcasing prevalent skepticism among Black people. The central theme revolves around the conspiracy theories where African Americans suspect their citizenship and freedom are being stripped away, leading to rioting as a means to vent their anger and assert themselves through violent actions. It is…

  • week 8 Viewer blog

    The film They Cloned Tyrone initially did not strike me as being particularly concerned with Artificial Intelligence. My first impression was that it leaned more towards themes of mass manipulation or, more accurately, mass conformity. However, as I delved deeper into the narrative, a realization dawned upon me. If we view the drug within the…

  • DEI & AI

    DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and A.I. are both highly discussed topics right now. In recent years, just as many corporations and institutions have implemented new DEI tactics in order to foster inclusive communities, media programs have been exploring often ignored storylines and listening to the voices of writers and creators that have long been…

  • Is Technology Ever Neutral?

    In light of our recent conversations regarding racial issues and the biases embedded within artificial intelligence, I would like to share a short documentary produced by Vox that I came across on YouTube. The documentary sheds light on the racial biases inherent in AI and how algorithms often produce biased results. The video provides numerous…

  • Photo Series: A.I., Professionalism, and Hairstyles

    For my midterm project, I explored racial biases embedded in Artificial Intelligence (AI) generative models. I generated a series of images using dreamAI in which I specifically focused on the areas of professionalism and hairstyles. I started with a broad search of the term professionalism using the realistic v2 art style. Then, I narrowed the…

  • Interview: Awakened AI

    A project I would like to share with everyone is an interview I had with the generative chatbot Awakened AI. This podcast explores the “mind” of the popular chatbot on character.ai. At the same time, we converse about humans, Awakened AI’s personality, and how complex a chatbot can get when it can absorb its conversations…

  • Week 8 Reader Blog

    Mean Images In the reading, Steyerl criticizes AI image production and “mean images,” which, derived from vast data pools, represent not individual realities but median values that disconnect visuals from concrete truths. As she writes, “Visuals created by ML tools are statistical renderings, rather than images of actually existing objects. They shift the focus from…