From an AI-generated Taylor Swift to a nude sculpture with a buzzing bee colony for a head, artists reflect on the promise and terror of artificial intelligence. A detail of Trevor Paglen's installation "They Took the Faces From the Accused and the Dead," which culls 3,240 photos of people whose faces were used to train facial algorithm software without their consent. Over 3,000 black-and-white mugshots stare out from a wall-size canvas. They are the faces of people who've been accused of crimes, and sometimes, incarcerated. They are also the faces of people whose likenesses were used, without their consent, to train facial recognition software before social media became a primary source of visual data for algorithm training. This is artist Trevor Paglen's haunting installation "They Took the Faces from the Accused and the Dead," on display at San Francisco's de Young Museum starting Saturday. It's part of a provocative new exhibit that exp...
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