Isabel Fisher: OVER-HEAD. 2024
I first asked ChatGPT what “human attributes” might be, with the following answer: Curiosity, Reliability, Creativity, Intelligence and Helpfulness. I used these different “human attributes” with definitions created by ChatGPT and put them into various prompts in Tensor Art. I asked Tensor Art to create a “personification” of AI, adding some personal descriptions about what AI is to the prompt. Then I added the definition of “human attributes” (like Curiosity etc.) to the prompts. I used these different prompts to create “portraits of AI faces”.
The prompt was written in English: “This is the personification of AI. No one knows who they are. They are a computer. Curiosity: Like a curious person, I'm constantly learning and evolving based on the vast data I’m trained on. I seek to understand user needs and respond in helpful ways, much like a curious mind wanting to explore and learn. How would this entity look like. portrait face towards camera. mysterious. white background, cinematic and high-fashion aesthetic style cinematic and horror.”
Reflection of the process
AI Artworks often portray unrealistically beautiful people. I asked myself how AI itself would look like, as a person, as a human being. How would it portray itself? I started my project by asking ChatGPT how it would describe “human attributes” in 5 words. The answer: Creativity, Intelligence, Curiosity, Reliability and Helpfulness. Through various attempts with different prompts, I asked Tensor Art to create its own personification (as AI), which usually came down to very similar results: a face that looks dead, wires coming out of its body and head, the only light source being the energy of that of a machine. Everytime I asked Tensor Art to create a new AI personification, the result of the artwork usually stayed overall the same.
Accepting this, I used Photoshop Generative Fill to make the background of the portraits from Tensor Art bigger. Afterwards I used Procreate to achieve the blending between the different portraits of the AI faces I have gotten. I mainly used the eraser, the smudge brush and some different painting brushes. Even though the faces have a horror element in it, I´ve found this combination more beautiful and interesting. My artwork OVER-HEAD not only showcases how AI can create beautiful yet horrific faces of itself but also how AI and WE as people perceive AI. We see AI as a machine that is desperately trying to look and act as human as possible.
Isabel Fisher is currently a 2nd year student at the LMU in Munich, Germany, studying Art and Multimedia with a minor in media informatics. I like doing digital artworks, collages, animations.