When the artist Minne Atairu began using AI to making glossy, Afrofuturist images, she discovered a dataset biased toward white women, unveiling the myth of the neutral algorithm. To demonstrate Silicon Valley’s ironclad control over these technologies, many artists have been using AI to disrupt this kind of Manichaean thinking, looking deeply into the mirror that algorithmic hegemony holds up to our unequal society.
How Can Synthetic Images Render Blackness?
