The future of the image in the age of AI, by the celebrated artist

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Trevor Paglen

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Today our world is under the watchful and tireless eye of computer vision, with cam­eras and monitors tracing our every move. Furthermore, generative AI is now able to render a synthetic world indistinguishable from reality for us to explore. Trevor Paglen goes in search of the ways and means of understanding this new visual universe. Instead of asking what these technologies "say" about the world, he teaches us to ask what they "do" and where such images come from.

Exploring the esoteric worlds of psyops, UFO imagery, magicians, and public relation gurus, Paglen shows that this appar­ently alien realm is more human, but much stranger, than we imagine.

Inhalt

1. Introduction
2. Invisible Images: Your Pictures are looking at you
3. Excavating AI
4. Machine Realism
5. Neural Activations
6. Society of PSYOPS
7. Archives of the Future
8. Conclusion
9. Acknowledgements