Origins (2022)
Origin is a encoded conversation held with GPT-3 on the topic of Human origin. GPT-3 is a deep learning model that uses machine learning algorithms to generate AI written text. To date it is the most advanced model and was trained on a corpus of text with more than 175 billion parameters. Whilst this technology is still in its infancy and its methods clearly visible, it is possible to note some of it's more dangerous precedences.
Within any form of historical colonisation there has been a familiar pattern of the willful destruction of native knowledge. This form of erasure functions as a method of controling thought both in the present and the future. If technologies such as GPT-3 become ingrained in our society's, the question then arises of who controls the training databases and registers that they draw from. Whose story will be promoted as history, and whose will be relegated to myth and legend. Further, if knowledege is reduced to the simple averaging of information will consenualism replace fact.
The Animation starts with the simple input prompt of "What is a Human" and a conversation is allowed to cascade and unravel in a natural form of call and response. GPT-3 seems to take a hardlined approach to its belief, repeating particular biases in a persuasive argument, not to dissimilar to modern day politicial practioners.
Within any form of historical colonisation there has been a familiar pattern of the willful destruction of native knowledge. This form of erasure functions as a method of controling thought both in the present and the future. If technologies such as GPT-3 become ingrained in our society's, the question then arises of who controls the training databases and registers that they draw from. Whose story will be promoted as history, and whose will be relegated to myth and legend. Further, if knowledege is reduced to the simple averaging of information will consenualism replace fact.
The Animation starts with the simple input prompt of "What is a Human" and a conversation is allowed to cascade and unravel in a natural form of call and response. GPT-3 seems to take a hardlined approach to its belief, repeating particular biases in a persuasive argument, not to dissimilar to modern day politicial practioners.
