With Loss of Generality

Crystality by dorf

This work is dorf's latest piece of AI-meta-art. The song is a classic piece of dorf synthwave but the lyrics are customised to the downloader: when you click the download link the site fingerprints you based on your browser and IP address and purchases a small amount of personal information about you from a data-broker. The custom AI model then customises the lyrics based on a template and directives by dorf. It's an unsurprisingly eerie effect and feels a bit like being seen when you didn't think you were being watched. The Name Your Price aspect gets rejigged here: the more you pay for the track the more information about you the system buys and so the more detail the song lyrics have. Of course, it also means that you're paying more money to these pernicious data-brokers to find out what they think about you.

our rating: 4 visions of AI dystopia / 5