AI Am I?

A series of artworks dreamed up by an AI and produced in real-life by the artist or others. A series of carefully curated “start texts” are fed into a text generation AI called GPT, which then outputs text that includes a description of an imaginary artwork, along with analysis of that artwork and other supporting text. Usually, a creative idea is conceived by a human and rendered with the help of technology. This series turns that notion on it’s head and represents a human-machine collaboration.

1. Description text, titles and quotes are generated using the GPT-3 AI using carefully created “start text”
2. Output is curated and chosen by the artist (from hundreds of outputs)
3. When an output is generated that the artist likes, it is fed back into the system to generate more text, this machine-human loop is repeated until the final output is chosen
4. Fake names are generated from a neural-network trained on names. http://fakename.xyz
5. Birth location, birthdate and artwork year are made from a custom algorithm (unless GPT-3 included them in the description)
6. Punctuation, spacing and other technical tweaks are made to the text (nothing that changes meaning)
7. The artwork is produced in real life and/or displayed as a wall-tag

Over time, more permutations to this human-machine loop were added, including:

AI describes artwork > I make artwork
AI describes artwork > Someone else makes artwork
AI describes artwork > AI reads the description and makes image
AI describes artwork > AI reads the description and makes image -> I make artwork
AI describes artwork > AI reads the description and makes image -> Someone else makes artwork
I make artwork > AI describes artwork
Someone else makes artwork > AI describes artwork
AI makes image > AI describes artwork
AI looks at anything > AI describes artwork