Generative AI is systematically erasing “locality.” Prompts & Provenance critiques how datasets over-indexed in the global north appropriate natural-language to synthetically represent the reality of place. In the age of AI, we must stem misrepresentation in synthetic imagery, and provoke ethical tools that protect and celebrate the nuanced poetics of locality.
Participants
VIRGINIA ZANGS AND JUDD SMITH
NEW YORK, USA
Virginia Zangs, Graefelfing, Germany, 1993. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Judd Smith, Goshen, NY, USA, 1994. Lives and works in New York, USA.