- What a deeply strange exhibition at my home uni @unibonn.bsky.social. The goal is to show 'pictures that were unfortunately never taken' of female scientists (and scholars, one might add) of Bonn. These pictures are AI-generated. bilderinstitut.de/untaken-pict...
Apr 22, 2025 14:02
- However, it's not like we don't know what these women looked like: there are actual pictures of them. The AI-generated version of them, displacing their actual faces, gives them a doll-like appearance in some cases: Amalie Kretzer is made noticeably slimmer, with larger eyes and dramatic eye shadow.
- Moreover, I don't see the ethical problems of generative AI addressed anywhere. Was this Midjourney model trained on illegally and/or unethically acquired data?
- There's some additional irony in the fact that one of the women celebrated is Margarete Woltner, founder of Bonn's Department of Slavic Studies, which was unceremoniously shut down in 2012.
