Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations
Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations

by Trevor Paglen ; ed. by Anthony Downey

Author(s)
Trevor Paglen
Editor(s)
Anthony Downe
Publication
London : Sternberg, 2024
Scope
160 Pages, illustrated, 18 cm.
ISBN
9783956795831

Although often considered to be a fault or a glitch in the system, the event of hallucination is central to the models of image production generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Through mining the latent space of computer vision, Trevor Paglen’s series Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations (2017–ongoing) reveals this phantasmal and hallucinatory domain. In the conversation included in this volume, he discusses how we can think from within these opaque structures and, in turn, questions the frequently inflated claims made on behalf of automated image-production systems. In an accompanying essay, Anthony Downey explores the uncanny realm of algorithmically induced images and proposes that AI, through its generative modelling of the world, invariably estranges us from the present and the future.


Person as subject
Trevor Paglen
Keywords
photography , visual culture , artificial intelligence
Stroom project
Trevor Paglen Seeing Secrecy (SYiTH)
Location
Cabinet 6 - 5: Kunstenaars
Remarks
Includes notes