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In Pictures: Black Artists Use A.I. to Make Work That Reveals the Technology\u2019s Inbuilt Biases for a New Online Show<\/a><\/h1>\n

In an act of “defiant visibility,” Black artists are telling their stories with A.I. despite its obvious shortcomings.<\/p>\n

Jo Lawson-Tancred<\/a>,\u00a0

An online exhibition of artworks by Black artists from Africa and its Diaspora explores the misrepresentations of Black identity by A.I., which they say offers \u201ca fragmentary, perhaps even violent, picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

As is now well understood, data, and consequently A.I., reproduces the same human biases that are ever-present in our everyday real lives. In response, \u201cIn\/Visible\u201d on the digital art platform Feral File brings together work that is \u201cdefiantly visible\u201d by Black artists who are using A.I. to tell stories despite its inevitable shortcomings.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBlack artists using A.I. today have to work harder than their white counterparts to get results that they feel accurately represent them,\u201d Senegalese curator Linda Dounia told Artnet News. \u201cThey achieved this with persistence and stubbornness, endlessly re-prompting, correcting distortions, and editing out stereotypes. While Black artists should be celebrated for the incredible persistence they show using a tool that barely understands them, it really shouldn\u2019t be this hard for them to participate in the emergence of new technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Classic examples of A.I. bias in Dounia\u2019s experience include face and body distortions, lack of detail or definition of features like hair and inability to understand cultural references like types of braid or attire. \u201cA prompt about a \u2018building in Dakar\u2019 will likely return a deserted field with a dilapidated building while Dakar is a vibrant city with a rich architectural history,\u201d she also noted of A.I.\u2019s replication of common stereotypes.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a technology that was developed in our times, it feels like A.I. has missed an opportunity to learn from the fraught legacies that older industries are struggling to untangle themselves from,\u201d she added. \u201c\u2018In\/Visible\u2019<\/span>\u00a0is a way for Black artists to feel less lonely in their experience of A.I., to have their challenges expressed in a way that resonates materially and emotionally, to reject the normalization of their exclusion in emerging technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her curatorial statement, Dounia further elucidated the ways in which data fail to adequately capture ambiguity, while also failing to offer an \u201cobjective\u201d reflection of our reality. \u201cLogical measurements of the mysteries of the universe and instruments capable of pulverizing elusiveness to its most objective bits,\u201d is how she described data. \u201cYet, what we measure, and where and how we measure it, are affected by who we are and our positionality relative to others.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn\/Visible\u201d is currently on view on\u00a0Feral File<\/a>. Preview works from the exhibition below.<\/p>\n

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