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Glitch Memories.
How Tech is Messing with Human Cognitive Systems.
AI challenges what accessibility means by providing a proxy accessible memory in place of that which is unavailable.
Fx.Google in its privacy policy, states that it uses information that’s publicly available online or from other public sources to help train Google’s AI models and build products and features using these foundational technologies.
All of our public pasts are suddenly vulnerable at scale, the entire history of our digitally entangled selves.
From the forging of a new and novel memory to a memory trained and extracted from the archive of ourselves.
AI tools will host or create your past so that it becomes something that you do not need to remember.
Digital participation leads to an overproduction and oversharing of information and most humans have gladly and freely given this information for decades now.
“The more data we leave behind the richer their storytelling and memorialising will be” Van der Werf.
What would then happen if the living memory of a generation, seen as vital for their carriage of the first hand witnessing and survival of a central event in…