AI Telephone

In my piece, AI Telephone, I explored the capabilities of artificial intelligence by turning a human-dependent game (telephone) into one that revolves around the collaboration of humans and machines. In making a work that highlights how digital media produces information through its own ways of knowing, I asked AI to create photos based on a series of short prompts based on the previously generated image. I started my game of AI Telephone by asking to AI to generate a picture of a rorschach inkblot test, a psychological test used to record people’s perceptions of abstract imagery. The following responses were mostly vague and abstract; however, as the game progressed, both the responses and corresponding imagery became more realistic and concrete. This project became an experimentation of how AI and humans can collaborate to make gradual perception changes. In my final display, I printed out each image in a line of fifty 4-inch squares. Exceeding 16.5 feet, the work spanned across the entire back wall, creating a visual timeline of the AI’s creations. Through this setup, viewers could follow the transformation in a linear narrative.