search engines – Artificial Intelligence https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Machine Learning Porn https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/machine-learning-porn/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 07:11:37 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=3590

Jake Elwes (UK)

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are fast becoming part of everyday life. Based on AI models currently used, among other things, in content moderation and surveillance, the artworks explore the “latent space” of the AI as it processes and imagines the world for itself, dreaming in the areas between and beyond what it has learnt from us.

In Machine Learning Porn a neural network has been trained using an explicit content model for finding pornography in search engines. The network is then reverse engineered to generate new “pornography” from scratch: an AI daydreaming of sex.

Credits

www.jakeelwes.com
Special thanks to Gabriel Goh for inspiration.

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