Imagined Selfies (with AI)

img2img with MidJourney

How AI interprets us humans, our culture and our personalities? This question has occupied my mind already since my first steps with AI. It wasn’t about myself or the human-machine relationship. Instead, I wondered, how (and what) does AI understands *) about humanity in general.

*)re: understands. I don’t anthropomorphize AI. I rather “de-anthropocentrify” humans.

So I tried to view the world with the eyes of a machine — in its early times, beginning with Google Deep Dream. I applied Deep Dream on different motifs, for example, on my userpic:

You see the famous dog faces here — I like these Bosch’alike chimeras from the old days of Generative Art.

OK, I tried myself as well (my first AI-post-produced selfie):

So I began to use my images for experiments with AI, especially when it was about face detection.