Final project! An app with 200 generated dinos, complete with names, scientific names and backstories. Images generated with custom trained machine learning model using Runway. Names, scientific names and backstories generated with custom models trained using runway (one model for each).Ā A continuation of a collaborative art project, d1no.club.
During the creation of this project, I was thinking about a lot of ways that machine learning implementations affect our society -- racist and sexist algorithms, humans becoming part of algorithms (like workers in Amazon warehouses, Turks, workers manually transcribing voice commands from Siri and Alexa), AI creating art. In the end, I found myself with a critique of what I love to critique the most, capitalism, using tactics employed from my favorite type of art -- pop art (hi Andy!). This project plays with the ideas of artistic creation itself, starting with a dataset of drawings created by humans, and then fed to a machine which now can create an infinite amount of unique pieces of art.Ā
I really wanted to critique theĀ āEtsyficationā of todayās consumer capitalism -- mass consumption that isĀ āuniqueā and ātailoredā to our individual tastes, marketed as somehow ethically āgoodā for society and our world. But it all is still just as damaging to our world as cheap plastic toys.Ā Ā















