I'm not a robot (2023) Exhibition Print
I'm not a robot (2023) Exhibition Print
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As exhibited at the "Stop the Robot Apocalypse" group exhibition.
"To differentiate between machines and humans, a captcha assesses qualities unique to humans, by presenting a simple puzzle that the user must solve. In doing so, the user provides information, which can be used as training data. Because of this, Captchas become obsolete by design – their use enables machines to learn how humans would act, and therefore how to break the captchas which trained them.
The topics on which the AI is trained on are however still chosen by humans. Their final use case is not made explicit, but can usually be inferred from the presented puzzle. In this work, a dystopian scenario is envisioned by using military drone footage as the base image of the captcha, inspiring the following question: What kind of AI are we helping to train?
Ironically, this image of drone footage itself is AI generated, which completely disconnects this piece from reality. While its form is entirely dominated by virtual material, what makes an artwork meaningful is its content and relation to reality. Will machines soon be able to autonomously form opinions, and create their own art? Or will they rather remain a tool, not replacing but enhancing the artist’s vision?"
