General Uniqueness

Intro

"GeneralUniqueness" is an interactive art installation that invites participants to engage in how AI re-creating humans and thinking about the effects. It is not a chatbot but re-creates the content (face and words) that viewer inputs based on their emotions.

The concept of "General Uniqueness" was born from a critical observation of the modern over-reliance on AI. With simple inputs or direct transfer questions, we can get "insanely" increased productivity of the content with good quality. Zooming in on technologies building AI, the results seem to produce unique and creative results, but the process is contradictory to individuality. What they are doing is to achieve huge amounts of human data, giving uncountable labels, and then arranging and combining them to produce models in thousands of aspects. As shown in the interactive process of the work, the push of a button allows AI to customize you.

On this interface, participants input text to express. But what AIs here do is not to respond. They re-create the audience’s input, "optimizing" it based on emotional analysis, attempting to create a unique, emotion-infuse reflection of their thoughts. If people recognize the generated content as creativities then those will flow back into databases for both machines and humans, which means we take them seriously as part of our creativity. Thus, it now plays with AI as both a mirror and a molder of human thought and creativity, blurring the lines between human and machine-generated content. If the opposite is true, how do we perceive the fact that AI already played an important role in creative industries rather than others? The work questioned how we perceive uniqueness and individuality in the age of AI.

Video Documentation

Live photographs