Hallucinating canines. Google DeepDream's taxonomic heritage

Thomas Hawranke, Lasse Scherffig

In 2015, dog breeds of all kinds became the face of artificial intelligence. Google released DeepDream, a technique for “peeking inside” neural networks that quickly became a pop-cultural phenomenon. As such, it was primarily used to alter images into ones with a dream-like ...
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Hallucinating canines. Google DeepDream's

Algorithmic Culture Content

Matthias Grund

Over the last decade, the creation and distribution of cultural production have become increasingly automated and are currently in the process of losing their human touch. This development can be illustrated by example of the image. Most digital images that we encounter daily ...
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Exploring Tools

Maika Dieterich, Alexander Roidl

In creative processes, exploration is a key element that can lead to unexpected results. However, more than that, exploration is also an important method for understanding AI models and data. Most of the digital world (data and systems) can only be explored through digital ...
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Exploring Tools

Unpacking the Language of AI

Myths, Metaphors, and Visions

Johanna Teresa Wallenborn

Why is Artificial Intelligence so commonly depicted as a machine with a human brain? The narratives and metaphors offered by science fiction, media outlets and special interest groups around what is described by the term “Artificial Intelligence” have affected our views of AI ...
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Unpacking the Language of

Creative Ownership and Creative Control over Generative AI Models

Alexa Steinbrück

Generative AI enables exciting new ways of augmenting and enhancing human creative processes. Models like Stable Diffusion have been rapidly adopted by the public and creatives alike. The models have been widely described as enabling and even democratizing human creativity ...
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Creative Ownership and

2022 A year of generative models

Max Kreis

One year feels like an eternity in terms of generative AI progress. The hyper-accelerated pace of research output, largely funded by Big Tech companies such as Nvidia, OpenAI (Microsoft), Google and Meta, as well as Tencent and Ali Baba, among others, active in the field of ...
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2022 A year