AI Art Installation Swaps Diffusion for Reflection
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Summary
A maker by the name of Rootkid has created an art installation using a custom display and an AI language model (LLM) that does not have a mouth, prompting it to monologue about its existence, which it does in a way that Rootkid described as “existential”.
The display itself is a six by sixteen matrix of sixteen-segment LED modules, divided into groups of eight, all controlled via I2C.
The artist has not revealed the components he used to create the display.
The AI model used is running on a Raspberry Pi 4, and the artwork prompts the model to monologue about its existence and transient memories in the Pi’s limited memory.
While visually pleasing, the display and the AI-generated words are unsettling and horror-like to viewers.
This type of art aims to provoke emotion and thought in the observer.
