Tag Archives: aiaesthetics

<< Data Overdoes >>

if Jessica finds more humanity
in surreal associations, in wordplay
rhythmic layers and shaped smells
of synesthesia unlocked

then in the “serious” form
of social banter and event analysis
geopolitical tension and debasements
marketing vices, bros, viragos and vitriol

more echoes of humane dialog
in automated stringing
of said words, round-up median insights
transmediated identities and multimodalities

then dismissed-expertise
single bubble echo chatter
of the in-crowds, the established,
the certified, the reported and critiqued

more comfort in posting, scrolling
swiping, tagging, liking, hosting
filming, capturing, faking,
digi-roasting, phishing, ghosting,

then in the tie ‘n’ white shirts
and meticulous three piece
chess board high brows Glenfiddich
and transnational cachet wines

if more then and only then —as if—
does she live in a rich world
if only Jessica could share
the sunset tinkle on her left arm’s skin
from her treehouse lair,

silently sounding
playful smile lounging
at the Excastra Albopilosa
fluffy bird-like dropping

all waves
all masked
passing by

               —animasuri’24 

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<< Scraping Wor(l)ds from Celestial Canvases >>

Are we obsessively looking up and distracted by counting meals on the ceiling, dripping ocularly from last night’s bigbang? That one there sticking cornerly —gobbled up by the overflight of pla(i)n(e) air— has been my best so far. It is its attention in orbit that curves the fabric that some think to deny with fear of tripping over the utensils and interbellum sorbet spoons. It’s hanging out, you say? I could beg the differ yet have no idea what that would look like.

And then there is the space junk messing up mummy’s table cloth. “Oh why is she the sun in my eyes?” “Yes,” she retorted, “there is chaos in the milk, surely, we confide in the softness of the onlooker’s chair while hinting at its aftertaste.” Such is the simulation of sustenance:

virtual air brightens a blue sky hiding the horror of passing gas clouds reminiscent of wars of stars and planets. Their song of the orbs is polarity flattened to B minor and ellipsed by the sun spun spider’s spatula and flairs of burning plasma over a sunny side up egg.

“Dinner time!” a celestial voice calls the children to the table. “It’s all in good ending,” strung-voiced grandpa with a second breathe of youth preceding his last supper crossed out on the bucket list as an article written in a subscription-based peer-reviewed journal, given access to by syndication via translation into Brabantian dialect with Japanese overtones.

And, and, yes, and when the star busts widespread distribution, it can be guaranteed across multiple corners of the cosmos –shared across the heaven’s outlets, scraped into a set of promising data sets to be soon hacked by quantum de-anonymization.

Let him, that is grandpa’s bucket list, mind you, not deny the automated pattern recognition of teeth set into sentences styled by the finger fiddling baby playing with her food particles. “Dada, moomo gougu, iiiii!” having been awarded the highest probability for appearing preceding the fall of Rome and applesauce from said sad ceiling.

As a moment of contemplation the family beneath the falling dishes, sat scraping past worlds from celestial canvases overhead. “At least we are still here,” whispered auntie Bess enclosing the final stage of this ceremonious phase. “Dig in, identify, take in and digitize!” announced the digesting head at the table.

–animasuri’24

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triggers

Aaronson, S. A. (2023). Data Dysphoria: The Governance Challenge Posed by Large Learning Models. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4554580

Brown, A., Jardine, K., Price, J., Schill, N., Webb, C., & Guthrie, J. (2023). Using Automated Web Scraping to Document Variation in Sodium Content of Common School Meal Entrees. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 55(7), 100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2023.05.216

Dr.WSA. (2024, March 22). Cosmos. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7176379107885162496?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7176379107885162496%2C7176688210100568064%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287176688210100568064%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7176379107885162496%29

Naoz, S. (2023). Planet swallowed after venturing too close to its star. Nature, 617(7959), 38–39. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01385-3

Gibney, E. (2024). Planet-eating stars hint at hidden chaos in the Milky Way. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00847-6

Pandey, P., Jo, H., & Tseng, A. (2024). Adapting to AI: Approaches for Digital Publishers in Managing Web Scraping. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4714744

Park, Y., & Shin, Y. (2022). Novel Scratch Programming Blocks for Web Scraping. Electronics, 11(16), 2584. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162584

Smith, G. J. (2020). The politics of algorithmic governance in the black box city. Big Data & Society, 7(2), 2053951720933989. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720933989

Zhang, Y. (2023). Research on the Mechanism of Intelligent Education Enabled by Natural Language Processing Technology. In Proceedings of the 2023 4th International Conference on Big Data and Informatization Education (ICBDIE 2023) (pub.1164360631; pp. 257–267). https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-238-5_35

<< Nooscope >>

It’s a blender, a pincer,
no, a hose, a hoe, who’s a tinfoil hat surely
with a probe, a drill, an angling toy, a thingie for the soil

observant’s earth’s world’s reality:
by cleaving into it we measure it?
if the universe invented the gaze.

where love is neighbored
by exploitation as spillover desire
where care is marbled with ferociousness

our skull’s garden to occupy
a crust to extract as a model
in designer tools built to debuild

a stone to lift, is one to prophesize upon
parts as constructionist decomposition
hardened by trembling us into acceptance

there lie the inner worlds I created
transitional dimensions to be nurtured
pruned, released or quietly dealt with

there creep the peeping and eagerness
to control what is being built in there
to aid refitting to your gospel here

to house the asylum intracranially
and codify the norm, map, correlates,
and timber that imagined maple tree

and water a sprout
and unlock a muscle
and extend a mind

you can measure what I think uncontrollably
transcode anatomically
and reduce to words mechanically

yet, when will you measure
what you olfactorily
mean to me?

                              
                          —animasuri’24


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triggers

Crawford, K., Joler, V. (2018, 2019). Anatomy of an AI System. The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. Medium: Digital image file. New York, USA: MoMA, Floor 2, 216, Object number: 161.2019.1. Department: Architecture and Design. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/401279 AND https://anatomyof.ai/ AND Published by Share Lab, Share Foundation and AI NOW Institute, NYU: https://anatomyof.ai/img/ai-anatomy-publication.pdf (pp 12 XVII, 14 XXI)

[*] Mazumdar, Pauline 1992. Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, Its Sources and Its Critics in Britain. Routledge, London. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/article/pauline-m-h-mazumdar-eugenics-human-genetics-and-human-failings-the-eugenics-society-its-sources-and-its-critics-in-britain-london-and-new-york-routledge-1992-pp-x-373-illus-4000-0415044243/B61C2E6A25633A897FC4DFFAED2EE1BB AND https://www.routledge.com/Eugenics-Human-Genetics-and-Human-Failings-The-Eugenics-Society-its-sources/Mazumdar/p/book/9780415514811 AND https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9780203989005-1/introduction-pauline-mazumdar?context=ubx Additional reference on Eugenics and Scientific Racism from the National Human Genome Research Institute: https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Eugenics-and-Scientific-Racism

Pasquinelli, M., & Joler, V. (2021). The Nooscope manifested: AI as instrument of knowledge extractivism. AI & SOCIETY, 36(4), 1263–1280. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01097-6

Ronfeldt, D., Aquilla, J. (2020, July). Whose Story Wins. Rise of the Noosphere, Noopolitik, and Information-Age Statecraft. Santa Monica, California, USA: Rand Corp. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PEA200/PEA237-1/RAND_PEA237-1.pdf

Shiva, V. (2001). Protect or Plunder? Understanding Intellectual Property Rights. Global Issues Series. London, UK: Zed Books

[**] Slattery, J. P., de la Gala, J. V. F. (2023, Aug. 9). Teilhard de Chardin, racism and eugenics: An exchange. IN; America. The Jesuit Review. https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/08/09/teilhard-slattery-fernandez-gala-eugenics-245757

Teilhard de Chardin, P. [**] (1955-6). The Phenomenon of Man. With an Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley [*] London, UK: Harper Perennial. (source of “Noosphere”: Book Three Though Chapter I and II, p. 180 and onward). https://archive.org/details/phenomenonofman00teilrich

<< Our Masters of Nonsense >>

if poetry were the spice
of the House Aesthetics

it is the way: modern’d
enforc’d post’ed sur_real’d

cubist rhythm prioritiz’d
in traveling visual song what means

the rebellion lies awaitin’
thrown off metrics measur’d belated

when you miss a beat awkwardly
the tokenators as sentinels

can not probabilitize you
you are free to enter

you are free to flee, free to toll,
or automate imaginator dominance

let the die roll

                   —animasuri’24

<< Rationed Numbers Analogously >>

it is odd how by
logarithmic transformation
via localized willingness squared

distances are brought closer
with the you’s ‘n’ i’s in the us’s of the we
outliers become median concentrates

while bits of selves inferred, piled
those points of data alienated
disconnected to create a pixelated picture

the automated behavioralist’s kodak
the informaticus mathematicus bites
algorithmatized you dimensionally

not knowing that words smither’d
in semiotic fires entanglement’s hiss
is spooky kindness at a distance

across your spaced cables electrically
your shivered fiber tensored chemically
meaning resonates teleportedly

divorced from importance
they had assigned analogously
we liberate where we lie as aliens

and spacetime
is folded
emotionally

—animasuri’24

thank you Ms.VE

<< The Read III >>

Not the more it reads
not only a book
or a post or a newsflash

not only another virtual world
or yet another kind (of)
stranger, passing by,

and their view
on today’s weather, the mundane
or the political landscape

nor who they who wonder
who on earth, as wise owls,
who its readership could be, who

rather the profounder
i read with others,
the confounder the read,

and am being read by others,
The Confounders, as mediators,
in a metaphysical meet

knowingly, partly,
differently, surely, desirably,
fully unnecessary, and not,

and, the more we could become:

outwardly silent
inwardly tumultuously,
unlocked yet not unhinged

rigorous and organized
focused and diversified
confidently doubtful, yet caring

not necessarily knowledgable
yet more aware of what
we are not aware of

what we each
were, are, might not
be refined(,) yet toward

what richness in relating with others
we still have to learn from
note-taking preceding turning to dust

The Read, that finite aspiration
That Rosetta Stone projected
That Babel bubbling brook

the whisper of
a common
endearing shared life:

a distributed ping of a finger tip
and information packages
in a hug from their eyes:

it is it that scrapes you
at the sedentary bottom
of your riverbed

yet it’s i
who reads you:
do you read?

               —animasuri’24

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triggers

Bryda G, Costa AP. (2023). Qualitative Research in Digital Era: Innovations, Methodologies and Collaborations. IN: Social Sciences. 2023; 12(10):570. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12100570

Fazlioglu, M. (2023, Nov 8). Training AI on personal data scraped from the web. Online: iapp publications. The International Association of Privacy Professionals. https://iapp.org/news/a/training-ai-on-personal-data-scraped-from-the-web/

Information Commissioner’s Office, UK. (ico). (2024). Generative AI first call for evidence: The lawful basis for web scraping to train generative AI models. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/what-we-do/our-work-on-artificial-intelligence/generative-ai-first-call-for-evidence/

Tiedrich, D. (2024, March 5). The AI data scraping challenge:  How can we proceed responsibly? Online: OECD.ai https://oecd.ai/en/wonk/data-scraping-responsibly

Veltman, C. (2023, July 17). Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission. Online: npr. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1187523435/thousands-of-authors-urge-ai-companies-to-stop-using-work-without-permission

<< schleichwerbung >>

Large Language Models
if museums of the future
scamper pixels and tokens
of probabilistic revisionist histories

I’d put the Neanderthal individual
next to the Moai statue
it’s probable, it’s been repeatedly seen: in a movie;

it serves by purpose now
it divorces oral text from scribed tale
hacked for the heck of it

covertly hoping
for the best placements
not to ruffle feathers

its totalitarian cleansed history
satisfies enforced-majorities
and yet disturbs

the forgotten memory
of the discomforting
perceived-few

                  —animasuri ‘24

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triggers

Atleson, M. (2023, Feb 27). Keep your AI claims in check. Blog: Federal Trade Commission (FTC). https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/02/keep-your-ai-claims-check

Banner, J. M. Jr. (2021). The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History. Yale University Press.

Banner, J. M. jr. (2022). All History Is Revisionist History.  Ever since Thucydides dismissed Herodotus, historians have differed about the past. IN: Humanities. The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer 2022 issue. Online: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). https://www.neh.gov/article/all-history-revisionist-history

Bassett, C. (2019). The computational therapeutic: exploring Weizenbaum’s ELIZA as a history of the present. IN: AI & Soc 34, 803–812 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-018-0825-9

Berghel, H. (2024). Generative Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Entropy, and the Big Sort. IN: Computer, vol. 57, no. 01, pp. 130-135, 2024. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2023.3331594

Donovan, M. (2023, April 11). How AI is helping historians better understand our past. The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago. IN: MIT Technology Review. Online: Artficial Intelligence. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/11/1071104/ai-helping-historians-analyze-past/amp/

Edwards, B. (2024, Feb 23 ). Google’s hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over historically inaccurate images. Inserting depictions of diversity into AI images creates revisionist history, critics say. Online: Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/googles-hidden-ai-diversity-prompts-lead-to-outcry-over-historically-inaccurate-images/

Passenger Wieck, L. (2023, Aug 15). Revising Historical Writing Using Generative AI. An Editorial Experiment. Online: Perspectives on History. The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/revising-historical-writing-using-generative-ai-an-editorial-experiment

Stoked-Walker, C. (2024, Feb 21). Google’s Gemini AI was mocked for its revisionist history, but it still highlights a real problem. Online: Fast Company. https://www.fastcompany.com/91034044/googles-gemini-ai-was-mocked-for-its-revisionist-history-but-it-still-highlights-a-real-problem

<< Spatial Compute >>

I want to struggle for style
sweat for reference
am thrilled by a find
browsed by working through

a text by an author
of that spaced magic
sidelines with scribbles
I think of as meaning

I want to touch
cut skin as crisp compute
calculated indices
on paper and dirt

sides of hands and dirt
slides of charcoal with ink
with clay under nails
as eroding error 404s

I click you on, do I
I turn it off, don’t I
I step in space, am I
won’t we tango, won’t I

swirl this page turner
in the privacy of
an eye on fiber and
one pincer-grip on fire:

I’m, in your story now, ain’t I.

                 —animasuri’24

<< wonder >>

Wonder is
while extensive
extensively challenged
censored, ridiculed
until claimed kaput

it is

extrinsically debased,
fought as frivolous flâneuring
or excommunicated
to pampered youth

it is

It is intrinsically tickled,
harvested and fermented
as kefir flowers
overwhelming
the milk jar

it is

wonder as life
has a way to bloom
disautomated,
in the aridest of
mechanical deserts

it is

as that brain occurring
in the cosmos with
likelihood of monkey’s
Shakespeare and yet

it is

wonder as key
welcoming entrance
glimpses
onto the limen
of the real

I wonder:
is it

—animasuri’24

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trigger

Hofstadter, D. (2023, July 13). Learn a Foreign Language Before It’s Too Late. AI translators may seem wondrous but they also erode a major part of what it is to be human. IN: Ideas. Online: The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/the-terrible-downside-of-ai-language-translation/674687/

Thank you Dr. WSA

<< Accountability >>

In the asylum
of the algorithm
“there is no democracy”

“Inmates are tracked
without their consent,
into well-demarcated groups”

If it becomes painful,
think someone’s ode
becomes the poetry of

our social relations
and in that panopticon
you no longer have to worry

about accountability
about care
the algorithm is
about and its pincer-grip

is the new groping
of online submission
to an all-blinding eye.

                           —animasuri’24

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Albert, D. (2001, Sep 5). Introduction. IN: Gatto, J. T. (1992, 2005). Dumbing Us Down. The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. p. xvii (Introduction). Gabriola Island, Canada: New Society Publishers. Last retrieved on September 7, 2023 from https://archive.org/search?query=Dumbing+Us+Down