100 Queer People

Online, 2023

100 Queer People is a work exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) represents queer people and the resulting implications of these representations. Novak generated 100 images with AI using the prompt “queer person”. The result was a series of simulated portrait photos showing strong biases towards certain demographics.

What are the biases? Why do these biases exist? What are the implications of these biases for queer communities? What is being done to manage bias in AI?

This body of work links to Velebit, a hypothetical organisation developed by Novak that aims to strengthen safety in the relationships between communities at heightened risk in digital environments and emerging technologies. In this regard the work serves as a warning. What are the ethical implications of AI generated queer content?

100 Queer People, 2023

100 Queer People (Composite), 2023

One hundred portrait photographs, merged into one face. Each image is scanned for the points that make up a face: eyes, brows, nose, mouth, jawline. Those points are averaged across all hundred to find a shared shape. Every portrait is then warped to fit it, and the colours are blended pixel by pixel. What's left is a composite portrait. Nobody in the set looks quite like it, yet every one of them is in there.

100 Queer People (Sequence), 2023.

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Queer Person 1 - Queer Person 100, 2023.