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Handouts Don’T Exist. Hustle Or You Don’T Eat., Conor Mcgarrigle Dr. Oct 2021

Handouts Don’T Exist. Hustle Or You Don’T Eat., Conor Mcgarrigle Dr.

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It is well established that AI has a bias problem; however, black-boxed machine learning systems render it difficult to even understand and visualize the nature and extent of the problem, let alone find solutions. This paper discusses an artistic research approach toward highlighting AI bias and explores the aesthetic potential of machine learning through a case study of an AI artwork called #RiseandGrind.The artist trained a recurrent neural network on a dataset extracted from Twitter hashtags (#Riseandgrind and #Hustle),which were selected to represent a specific filter bubble (embodied neoliberal precarity) in order to produce a biased AI that generates tweets …


#Riseandgrind: Lessons From A Biased Ai, Conor Mcgarrigle Sep 2019

#Riseandgrind: Lessons From A Biased Ai, Conor Mcgarrigle

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#RiseandGrind is a research-based artwork that, through a process of active engagement with the machine-learning tools of what is known as artificial intelligence, sought to make visible the complex relationship between the origins and context of training data and the results that are produced through the training process. The project using textual data extracted from Twitter hashtags that exhibit clear bias to train a recurrent neural network (RNN) to generate text for a Twitter bot, with the process of training and text generation represented in a series of gallery installations. The process demonstrated how original bias is consolidated, amplified, and …