AI Phantasmagoria

The work captures scenes of chaos as fires and riots engulf the city. Mysterious robots clash with colossal creatures, leaving everyone bewildered by the unexpected confrontation. This gripping scenario is purely a work of fantasy, a computer-generated phantasmagoria—an amalgamation of fantastic and bizarre imagery. The videos are generated by artificial intelligence, drawn from millions of online videos and pop culture references. AI is not a human artificial intelligence, but as societal artificial intelligence. Its imagination does not stem from a specific individual, but from all the data that society publishes on the Internet. Thus, AI does not imitate human thought, but rather captures the zeitgeist. It represents the next stage in our attempt to create a conscious entity called society; something that could carry our thoughts and outlive us. However, this process is not without risks. In contrast to what Deleuze suggests, the machine is not expanding our horizons, but rather recycling and reprocessing our subjectivities, thereby reinforcing our fears and prejudices. As artists, we should not allow the machine to take the lead, but rather enable it to break free from society’s norms and established categories. The machine should also become more human in this process.