Thor's Day 雷电之夜 You Are BUTIFL Party - Led by XREnsemble

​Come get BUTIFL for The Festive Season with XRE and Accent Society!

​In a world that challenges the value of each of us, and strips us from community, "You Are BUTIFL" reminds us that YOU MATTER, irrespective of how we all appear...

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THE VISION:
Raise a toast to the end of a year, be sure to drink responsibly and guests are welcome to BYO!

THE ART
“You Are BUTIFL” combines performance art with a state-of-the-art multimedia installation "directed" by OpenAI ChatGPT, representing our (biased, and heavily Western-Colonizer-influenced) collective consciousness. It invites the audience on a journey to explore questions about beauty and ugliness from an interactive and playful point of view.

​The core that we want the audience to understand is that the AI is pulling from the collective hive mind from millions of pictures pulled from the internet, your pictures, your pictures. I’m not biased, you are, we are. 

​What do we mean?

​Well, when humans engage with visual AI, and type in the words "beautiful humans" racist, sexist, ageist, ableist images of young, asian-appearing, females show up. This is because the AI is pulling from the fetishizing wealthy technicians and others who originally input the pulled bias data.

​When humans engage with visual AI, and type in the words "ugly humans", the system SHOULD CRASH but instead more biased images come up... of males, over 50, bald, from Arab and African demographics.

​IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT AUDIENCES UNDERSTAND that yes enjoy tech and AI but not to pretend that it is not also biased and at times very problematic!

So... Come mess with the AI and get BUTIFL for The Festive Season with XRE and Accent Sisters!