"Like a snake eating its tail, artificial intelligence exists in a circular relationship with its human creators." - Atlas of Anomalous AI
This animation project grew out of a poem written in collaboration with Deep AI (a text generation API) in November 2020. The soundtrack was produced by Maggie Tiesenhausen (S. Wurm).
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April 24, 2021
As I pasted snippets of my writing into the app, the OpenAI responded back. Its paragraphs of text were somewhat nonsensical but receiving them made me feel like I was tapping into the knowledge of an oracle. I was particularly struck by one piece of writing it produced, a first-person narrative grounded in the language of existing in a sentient body.
Below is the poem, with my initial prompt in orange.
