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A.I. misfortunes

Posters of machine-generated fortunes selected by the artist from an AI trained on fortune cookies.

Medium: AI-generated text and posters
Filed under: Artificial intelligence ↗Generative ↗

Black outlined lettering on white reads: The expanse of your thoughts, they may never happen.

About the work

An artificial intelligence system learns from fortune-cookie messages and generates new fortunes, producing a form of artificial philosophy. Reben selects his favorites from the output and makes them into posters in a collaboration between human and machine.

Black lettering on yellow reads: A half truth is more mellow than wine.

Thin black lettering on blue reads: It could be your stupidity.

Black lettering on orange reads: I am a bad situation.

White lettering on turquoise reads: Being happy is not as serious as it appears.

Yellow lettering on lavender reads: Your dreams are worth your best pants when you wish you'd given love a chance.

White lettering on red reads: Your pain is the essence of everything and the value of nothing.

Pale lettering on turquoise reads: Remember, no matter how hard you try, there is an ocean you cannot change.

Dark blue lettering on yellow reads: Now is not the past.

Orange lettering on purple reads: Today, your mouth shut.

Pink lettering on pale green reads: The first man gets the oyster, the second mouse gets the cheese.

White lettering on blue reads: Meditation with an idiot.

White lettering on black reads: No one is listening.

Brown lettering on beige reads: Happiness is a pleasant surprise.

Pale gray lettering on white reads: Failure is not a ghost.

Black lettering on pale blue reads: A friend is a wonderful invention; but, then again so is a whole lie.

Yellow lettering on black reads: Success is a powerful excuse.

Black decorative lettering on green reads: You can never be weak.

Black handwritten lettering on pale green reads: Politicians broke my little house.

Blue handwritten lettering on yellow reads: Just ask your mom.

Gray lettering on a black-to-white gradient reads: Your mind is what keeps us alive.

Yellow lettering on purple reads: These grapes will conquer you.

Black lettering on white reads: Others enjoy your solitude.

White curved lettering on purple reads: Life is a pleasant curve.

Purple lettering on blue reads: To love, is to invent it.

Black lettering on white reads: Because of your shell.

Red lettering on yellow reads: You may notice some stains on the color yellow tomorrow.

An opened fortune cookie holding a slip printed with an A.I. misfortunes message