Category: Deliverables-08

fr0g.fartz-artbreeder

Although I like these generative images, I think the aspect of this site that is about creating people is a little scary and problematic. I clicked on someone to edit and I clicked the largest spectrum of female and it was super distorted, but in between male and female was pretty feminine. The most male option was just a normal male.

Monday – ArtBreeder

I was really amazed at what Artbreeder can do! I had only heard about it before because a lot of people were using the face models to create characters, but there’s so many possibilities. I was really interested in the types of character designs i could make with it.

fr0g.fartz-facereadings

Clearview.ai seems super sketchy and it’s scary how big their database is. It’s scary that a guy that seems like a douchebag is the only one that’s choosing who to control this technology. Where is government regulation when it’s reported that he is allowing stores like Walmart to access it? It seems like anybody with money can access Clearview.

It’s also crazy how much race has to do with facial recognition, and I really admire Joy Buolamwini for educating others. However, I am wondering how the fuck there are 1.6 thousand dislikes on her video compared 2.6 thousand likes. I don’t understand what could compel somebody to dislike this video.

fr0g.fartz-08-LookingOutwards

I think this project is super cool. I’m very interested in how it explores objects that contain human-ness to them. The object they use in this piece is a bed sheet and I paint a lot of bed sheets in my art, and have always enjoyed painting beds because they have such an intimate quality about them, so this is inspiring and relatable. He used his body movements to make movements in the bed sheet which is super interesting, because it is delving into how humans affect the objects around us, and therefore, the objects become more human-like.