ERASED HUMAN

'Erased Human is a glitch art video that chronicles an audacious experiment: the attempt to completely expunge my human fingerprint from AI-generated images. This project confronts the heated debate surrounding AI art, a debate that sees fervent defenders and staunch critics clashing over issues of authorship and originality.

The journey began with a provocative act: I 'stole' my artwork, feeding it into an AI training model. This initial dataset served as the AI's creative seed, guiding its first forays into image generation. But here's the twist: these AI-generated images, derived from my originals, weren't the end product. They became the new training data, fueling a recursive cycle where the AI learned from its creations.

Each generation losing fidelity to the original. With each training cycle, the AI's output drifted further from my initial style, blurring and distorting the familiar into the abstract. The process was a deliberate erosion, a gradual washing away of my artistic signature. The original artwork, while becoming unrecognizable, remained the foundational blueprint.

To further challenge conventional notions of art, I subjected the AI's creations to scrutiny by a computer vision system. This machine, armed with image recognition algorithms, attempted to judge whether these AI-generated outputs could be classified as art. This added layer of machine-driven analysis directly confronts the core question: can AI truly create art independent of human influence? Is it Art?

'Erased Human' is a thought experiment. It probes the boundaries of authorship, creativity, and the evolving relationship between humans and machines in the artistic process. It asks: in this recursive cycle of AI training, where the machine learns from its outputs, am I, the human, truly erased? Are these final, distorted images derivative works, or something entirely new? Is this art, or a machinic echo of human creativity? 

Audio: Guido Molea

http://www.dombarra.art/erasedhuman