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Episode: Hegemony Eroding: Excavating Diversity in Latent Space (39c3)
Description: Hegemony Eroding is an ongoing art project exploring how generative AI reflects and distorts cultural representation. Its name speaks to its core ambition: to bear witness to the slow erosion of Western cultural hegemony by exposing the cracks in which other cultures shine through.
This talk will discuss the blurry boundary between legitimate cultural representation and prejudice in AI-generated media and how generative AI can be used as a tool to explore humanity's digital foot print.
It is permeated by a critique of purely profit-driven AI development and it's tendency to blunt artistic exploration and expression.
Generative AI models ingest...