Harald Klinke<p>I thoroughly enjoyed Antonio Somaini’s lecture tonight on the Politics of Latent Spaces at the conference Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.</p><p>His reflections on compression as a cultural and epistemic process were truly inspiring — and the sources cited were excellent, too ;)</p><p><a href="https://det.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/LatentSpaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LatentSpaces</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/DigitalCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalCulture</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Compression</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Vectorization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vectorization</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/NeuralNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeuralNetworks</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/ArtAndAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtAndAI</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/MachineVision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineVision</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/epistemiccompression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epistemiccompression</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/AIAesthetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAesthetics</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@databasecultures" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>databasecultures</span></a></span></p>