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Software that detects faces in images and matches them to identities. Artists often treat it as a subject, critiquing surveillance and bias.
If you think about something like facial recognition systems built into police body cams, you can think about the fact that the “way of seeing” built into that system is a way of seeing that amplifies the power of the police.
Trevor Paglen, Trevor Paglen on Technological Points of View
Firstly, a lot of AI has to do with images, whether that’s facial recognition or generative images and video, etc. Artists have thousands of years of collective thinking about images that give us huge insights into the often terrible assumptions built into computer vision and AI systems.
Trevor Paglen, Trevor Paglen on Technological Points of View