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Date: 2024-10-22 05:44:17+00:00
From: Joanna Zylinska <jo.zylinska@gmail.com>
Subject: Troubling AI: a call for screenshots
Dear All,
A group of us from King's College London, Sciences Po and the Public
Data Lab are working on this collective project on visually screenshotting
the weirdness of AI. Please see the call below. We hope you will consider
sending us something – and help us spread the word.
Best,
Joanna Zylinska / Tommy Shaffer Shane / Axel Meunier / Jonathan W. Y. Gray
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troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸
How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI?
This "call for screenshots" invites you to explore this question by
sharing a screenshot that you have created, or that someone has shared
with you, of an interaction with AI that you find troubling, with a
short statement on your interpretation of the image and circumstances
of how you got it.
The screenshot is perhaps one of today’s most familiar and accessible
modes of data capture. With regard to Al, screenshots can capture
moments when situational, temporary and emergent aspects of
interactions are foregrounded over behavioural patterning. They also
have a ‘social life’: we share them with each other with various social
and political intentions and commitments.
Screenshots have accordingly become a prominent method for documenting
and sharing AI’s injustices and other AI troubles – from [1]researchers
studying racist search results to [2]customers capturing swearing
chatbots, from [3]artists exploring algorithmic culture to [4]social
media users publicising bias.
With this call, we are aiming to build a collective picture of AI’s
weirdness, strangeness and uncanniness, and how screenshotting can open
up possibilities for collectivising troubles and concerns about AI.
This call invites screenshots of interactions with AI inspired by these
examples and inquiries, accompanied by a few words about what is
troubling for you about those interactions. You are invited to
interpret this call in your own way: we want to know what you perceive
to be a ‘troubling’ screenshot and why.
Please send us mobile phone screenshots, laptop or desktop screen
captures, or other forms of grabbing content from a screen, including
videos or other types of screen recordings, through the form below
(which can also be found [5]here) by 15th November 2024.
Your images will be featured in an online publication and workshop
(with your permission and appropriate credit), co-organised by the
[6]Digital Futures Institute's [7]Centre for Digital Culture and
[8]Centre for Attention Studies at King's College London, the
[9]médialab at Sciences Po, Paris and the [10]Public Data Lab.
--
Joanna Zylinska
Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice
Director (Interim) of the [11]Centre for Attention Studies
King's College London
Department of Digital Humanities
NEW BOOK: [12]The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between
the Eye an
d AI (MIT Press, open access)
NEW ARTICLE: [13]Diffused Seeing: The Epistemological Challenge of
Generative AI
(Media Theory, open access)
[14]Website
[15]IG research notebook
References
1. https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68025677
3.
https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/prtscn-the-lazy-art-of-screenshot/
4. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231215360
5. https://troubling-ai.glitch.me/
6. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/digital-futures
7. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/cdc
8. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/centre-attention-studies
9. https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/
10. https://publicdatalab.org/
11. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/centre-attention-studies
12. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546836/the-perception-machine/
13.
https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/1075/684
14. http://www.joannazylinska.net/
15. https://www.instagram.com/joanna.zylinska/
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