︎︎︎model collapse?
Revealing its self-consuming origins in extraction of the earth’s resources and data through relics, artifacts and stories. At a time when these technologies are everywhere, we need to be able to see and feel their connections with human activities and more than human territories.
What set of extractions, agencies and resources are embedded in our tools and where do they stem from?
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As Kate Crawford writes in Atlas of AI:
"AI's entire supply chain reaches into capital, labor, and the Earth's resources, demanding enormous amounts of each. This extraction is both literal and figurative, largely invisible and almost impossible to follow."
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Within the project you can explore (growing) research into 4 domains within artificial intelligence: EXTRACTION * INCLUSION * MYSTIFICATION * CLASSIFICATION. You can browse intuitivly through the impossible connections between these domains with the help of an local language model. This text AI is embedded in the mainstation and measures the relation between your query and the research. Browse by color - feeling - lifeform.. or whatever you come up with and get appointed a location in the generative landscape where a story will be told. 
Be aware, the system has its own will. Typing the same query multiple times might hold different results.
Model Collapse presents alternative imaginaries that challenge mystification and embrace alienation as an artistic expression. With no symbols, deities, or hosts beyond puffy clouds to guide our reflections on AI, the cyber sculptures in the space offer new ways to reflect on technological developments.
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Makers Cyanne van den Houten and Ymer Marinus are intrigued by the magic of co-creating with generative systems, but are also aware that these digital technologies are not neutral and acknowledging its biases and exclusions. By hacking, reclaiming, chaining and investigating ethical methods, their collective Telemagic invites you to reflect on the creative potential and implications of working with algorithms. And like the cyber sculptures, celebrating and investigating new alien art forms and neocrafts that come with it.
The term Model Collapse comes from machine learning, and is used for what happens when AI models are trained on data that includes content generated by earlier versions of themselves.
Over time, this process causes the models to drift further away from the world as it is. Instead of improving, the AI starts to make mistakes that compound over generations, leading to outputs that are increasingly distorted and unreliable. Cracks that can give insight and be the start of artistic exploration.
︎︎︎take me back
